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Apple Announces Time Capsule
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what does NAS mean that everyone is referring to?
Also, does anyone know if this thing will be able to store my media (movies, music etc) and stream it to my MPB? If I could remove all of my movies and photographs and keep it on this, and then access them when I need, I'm buying one.
Most importantly though, will I be able to stream movies off of it? On to my MPB or anTV in the future?
network attached storage, basically the hard drive that is attached to the router.
apple better release an update to the AEBS so that your attached drive can work as time capsule. Dont' see them doing it, but pretty crappy if they don't.
Only ugly if they continue to prevent the airport + HD from doing the same thing. Once we get new software updates over the next few days, watch and see if this changes.
I don't know, but I doubt you know either.
Apple website now mentions 'hard drive sharing' as a feature of AirportExtreme - is this new?
http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/features/harddrivesharing.html
What's the problem using it as the nominated Time Machine disk?
http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/features/harddrivesharing.html
What's the problem using it as the nominated Time Machine disk?
So, question. I have an iMac with 750GB HDD. And I wanna get a MacBook Air. Can I use the Time Capsule as an external drive to use Time Machine with both the iMac (hooked up via USB) and the MacBook Air (wireless)?
So does NAS mean I would be able to store all of my media and then stream it to my MBP when needed without transferring from one device to another?
Likely nothing - as long as you only have one Mac using it as a TMD. It might not be able to support more then one Mac.
Time Capsule seems to have software that allows it to maintain multiple, separate, Time Machine datastores so more then one Mac can use it, without overwriting each machine's datastore.
Correct. I do it now with a NAS using wired Ethernet, but wireless would be much more convenient.
Nothing on the product page seems to indicate it does...
The first thing I thought of when I read the feed on this was: "will it support ZFS?" That would be nice with AirDrive -> one big networked HD...
You can like store stuff on it.
I think (correct me if Im wrong) that this has always been a feature, however, there is no way to use that attached drive as your TM backup.
Although there were hacks that brought this feature back which surfaced a couple of months back.
sweet, im buying one in that case. Now they just need to create some sort of sling box device so I can access my Time Capsule wherever there is an internet connect
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A wireless Hard Drive in a sealed box?!?
If it didn't have the Apple logo on it you'd all hate it....
I do not agree with
A wireless Hard Drive in a sealed box?!?
If it didn't have the Apple logo on it you'd all hate it....
I almost started to write the same thing...
We need a major update for sure, because I assumed when leopard came out with time machine they would do that, maybe when leopard is updated we will get something. I feel a little suckered by the time machine and airport extreme hype we all got.
It creates a separate folder (not hidden, look at it in Finder) with the name of the machine, I believe. So it can accommodate multiple machines.
Steve
Well, look back at my comment about my grandmother. She has a Macbook she uses to surf the web, send e-mails, and store photos from her digital camera and videos I send her of her grand-daughter.
If her hard drive dies, what would you suggest she do? What other product could she use to back-up her data? What's as easy as this? I can't think of many.
I'm actually considering this as possibly the only thing from the keynote that I like. It seems like a pretty good offer for the 1TB drive and I'm going away to university soon, so I was about to get in the market for a portable backup drive, this might actually be a bit better.
I am using a 500GB Maxtor Plus 4 as my local Time Machine store, and while it is wired, it's in a "sealed box".
Lots of people use external HDDs from companies like Seagate, WD, and Maxtor that are in "sealed boxes" as auxiliary storage.
Why is that such a bad thing in the Time Capsule?
If you really want to be able to swap HDDs, then buy an external wireless NAS that you need to supply your own HDD from someone else and go to town.