A:Answer Į used it to update my Windows OS, previously I had tried to use many different external/plug&play numerous resources and even though it would download the updates, they would never install properly. When I attempted to use this hard drive the updates installed with no problem. Personally have not used the hard drive with any iOS systems but I know that the hard drive does support iOS and comes with an iOS installer pre-loaded.
I feel confident in saying that it should be able to handle the updates in question.
As far as applications it handled being the hard drive source for every Windows application, including the exe files and the program files after installation, that I used it for.