How can i access my external hard drive at home from school?

[Vyom__]

I am College student and i live 5 hours away from school.

my laptop is running out of memory so i got a 2tb Seagate backup plus portable hard drive. i also have files on my home desktop i want to access from school. if there a way i can connect my hard drive when i get home to my router and still be able to access it from my laptop at school
i ask this because i have files that are on my laptop i need to access at home and files at home i need to access from school.

i ask if i can do this because carrying around the hard drive is a hassle and having to take it from home to school connecting it to different computers and if i could connect it to my home router and access it from school it would free up a lot of space on my laptop and and i could easily access my files from my desktop at home with out having to transfer everything over.

p.s. i have the 2015 macbook pro

thanks you,
blue

 

[cdheer]

Some routers allow this; it would depend on the make/model of the one you have.

But it might be simpler to use something like GotoMyPC. Remote into your PC from your Macbook and just do file transfers.

 

[glamdringfh]

How many files are we talking about here?

If it isn't that many it would be much simpler to use a service like Dropbox as cloud storage that is accessible between both PC's. You would need to set up a fileserver if you wanted to access your hard drive from home.

 

[Vyom__]

How many files are we talking about here?

If it isn't that many it would be much simpler to use a service like Dropbox as cloud storage that is accessible between both PC's. You would need to set up a fileserver if you wanted to access your hard drive from home.

about 10+gb im trying to access photos videos and music as well

 

[cdheer]

How many files are we talking about here?

If it isn't that many it would be much simpler to use a service like Dropbox as cloud storage that is accessible between both PC's. You would need to set up a fileserver if you wanted to access your hard drive from home.

about 10+gb im trying to access photos videos and music as well

What's your Internet upload bandwidth at home? 10+GB might be ugly no matter how you do it.

 

[AgPaul]

google drive, you get 15 gigs free of storage free and unlimited photos as long you save them at a lower (but still good) resolution