Wait, what? You've been able to use AEBS USB-attached drives as NAS since the beginning. I keep my entire iTunes library on one.
I just moved my Time Machine disk to my base station, and it definitely works. It's insisting on starting my backups from scratch, however, since Time Machine doesn't seem to realize it was the same drive it was using 10 minutes ago. The copy is going at about 2MB/sec.
Yeah I misread that. Both Time Capsule and a usb drive attached to an Airport Extreme can be used as NAS.
Bottom line:
If you don't have an external USB hard drive for backup or an Airport Extreme yet, get a Time Capsule. If you already have an external USB hard drive for backup, get an Airport Extreme. If you already have an Airport Extreme, get an external USB hard drive.
Does the hard drive have to have 1 journaled partition, or can i have say a 400/60 split of ntfs/journaled (like i do on my external right now) and it will still work?
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Adam @ Mar 19th 2008 7:49PM
Wait, what? You've been able to use AEBS USB-attached drives as NAS since the beginning. I keep my entire iTunes library on one.
I just moved my Time Machine disk to my base station, and it definitely works. It's insisting on starting my backups from scratch, however, since Time Machine doesn't seem to realize it was the same drive it was using 10 minutes ago. The copy is going at about 2MB/sec.
Zak @ Mar 19th 2008 7:57PM
Yeah I misread that. Both Time Capsule and a usb drive attached to an Airport Extreme can be used as NAS.
Bottom line:
If you don't have an external USB hard drive for backup or an Airport Extreme yet, get a Time Capsule.
If you already have an external USB hard drive for backup, get an Airport Extreme.
If you already have an Airport Extreme, get an external USB hard drive.
gfar @ Mar 20th 2008 5:51PM
Does the hard drive have to have 1 journaled partition, or can i have say a 400/60 split of ntfs/journaled (like i do on my external right now) and it will still work?