“Does this hard drive have to be formatted specific to Windows or Apple? Does this drive have to be formatted specific to Windows or Apple? We are a divided household; Macs, iPhones, Windows, and Android devices. Can they all upload and access material stored on the hard drive?”

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• When you go into nas settings through browser and turn on time machine, the drive will ask you how much room you want to dedicate to time machine and it takes care of partition formatting for you. For iPhone photo backups, no need to reformat.

  Answered by Tbobtx 10 years ago

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• Yes, format for either MAC or Windows.

  Answered by Bluesman46 8 years ago

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• yes, you need to format it for use on a Windows or MAC machine

  Answered by Gregor123 10 years ago

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