Airport Express Ethernet HDD

[Zmmyt]

Hi.

Just bought an Airport Express.

I was wondering if anyone had any experience with connecting an ethernet HDD to it.

Is the drive easily accessible? Does Time Machine work with it? Any drawbacks?

Essentially: Is it worth it?

Cheers!

 

[Lance-AR]

As long as the NAS supports the time machine protocol, it will be a little slow across the wireless but I think it should work when plugged into the LAN port.

 

[btbrossard]

The only potential drawback is the slower ethernet speeds vrs. connecting your NAS to a gigabit network.

For what you're using the drive for, it may not matter at all to you.

 

[Zmmyt]

Just streaming movies should be alright then.

 

[Zmmyt]

Thanks by the way for the replies. Much appreciated.

 

[marzer]

Hi.

Just bought an Airport Express.

I was wondering if anyone had any experience with connecting an ethernet HDD to it.

Is the drive easily accessible? Does Time Machine work with it? Any drawbacks?

Essentially: Is it worth it?

Cheers!

Unless the drive supports TM out of the box you'll probably have to do a little manual setup so TM can see it.

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110808120424119

I've successfully used this on a NAS in the past.

As it was already pointed out, backuping up a network drive connected to the Express will be very slow because it doesn't have a gigabit port.