A:AnswerI would Highly recommend you look into using this drive connected to your home computer and do some reading about a little program called Plex that will let you stream anything you have on the drive to any device around the world. I would check out this video that explains it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCGM9xGBPQ0
A:AnswerIt can be but you have to decide if it is going to be used solely for Mac or PC. If using it just for Mac you would have to go to the Disk Utility and reformat the hard drive to be used for Mac.