Can one drive be used to back up multiple computers each using Time Machine?
We have two laptops and a desktop computer in one house on one WiFi system, will one external drive work for all three computers as a system backup or does each computer need their own hard drive?
You can use one external hard drive to back-up multiple computers if you partition the hard drive. If you're using time machine, I assume you're backing up Macs. Here is a link to walk you through partitioning your hard drive: http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilitypart.htm
If this isn't the route you want to go, I'd recommend buying an external drive for each computer.
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