

The problem with this use case is that as soon as she leaves home and disconnects from our WiFi network, she no longer has access to these files. That frees up storage on her Mac without raising her iCloud storage bill.
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So she could use a NAS drive to store all of these mods for use when she’s at home. My girlfriend, for example, loves to play the Sims game but doesn’t have enough storage for all the mods she wants on her MacBook. There are tons of things you can use NAS drives for on Mac.
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Why NAS drives for Mac are the best Time Machine solution That’s actually exactly what it’s like – many of the products in this article market themselves exactly like that. In other words, it’s like having a personal cloud server for your home. As long as you’re connected to your WiFi, you have access to the drive and the files stored on it. You don’t have to plug the hard drive into your Mac. Since NAS drives can plug into your WiFi router, you can put files on them over the internet. I have a standard 500GB SSD from Samsung that I use to backup my Mac. You plug it into your Mac, and you can store files on it. For those that don’t know, a hard drive is like a giant flash drive. NAS drives for Mac (and for Windows, but this is AppleToolBox) is a big hard drive that plugs into your WiFi router.
