Alternative to Time Capsule back-up external hard drive?

[Jesse Smith]

Looking at the reviews on Apple.com for Time Capsule, it looks like Apple really stinks at making back-up hard drives. What would be a good Alternative?

1. Being able to use Airport to back up and not have to plug it in to the iMac would be a *big* plus.
2. It doesn't have to have automatic back-ups. Just backing up when I make it back-up would be fine.
3. 1 TB Hard Drive.

So far I've looked at G-Tech G-Drive Q 1TB, Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 Hard Drive - 1TB, and the LaCie 1TB d2 Quadra Hard Disk, though I don't see 'Airport' in the descriptions/Features.

 

[noodle654]

Looking at the reviews on Apple.com for Time Capsule, it looks like Apple really stinks at making back-up hard drives. What would be a good Alternative?

1. Being able to use Airport to back up and not have to plug it in to the iMac would be a *big* plus.
2. It doesn't have to have automatic back-ups. Just backing up when I make it back-up would be fine.
3. 1 TB Hard Drive.

So far I've looked at G-Tech G-Drive Q 1TB, Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 Hard Drive - 1TB, and the LaCie 1TB d2 Quadra Hard Disk, though I don't see 'Airport' in the descriptions/Features.

Look into the WD MyBooks, I think the World Edition has Airport support. Those drives that you listed wont do much as they are Windows based.

 

[Jesse Smith]

Those drives that you listed wont do much as they are Windows based.

Not two of them. Obviously Apple wouldn't sell them if they only worked for Windows...

http://store.apple.com/us/product/TP490ZM/A?cid=AOS-US-SHOP-NexTag G-Tech G-Drive Q 1TB
http://store.apple.com/us/product/TR727ZM/A?cid=AOS-US-SHOP-NexTag LaCie 1TB d2 Quadra Hard Disk

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