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Discontinued AirPort Extreme and 2TB Time Capsule Finally Disappear From Apple Online Store
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eero's design is simple and elegant. The base stations and beacons have one small indicator light.
iOS devices can’t backup to Airport/Time Capsule on their own, and iCloud sync isn’t a replacement for Time Machine, so nope.
It’s just a case of letting other manufacturers specialise, because from apples point of view, there are enough options now. It’s no different than when they stopped making printers, or even a couple of years ago when they stopped making displays - it just turns out they made the wrong call on displays, because there aren’t a lot of good quality high-PPI screens around.
I always recommend synology routers over other brands as the updates come thick and fast it's the most stable router I have used and the signal strength and quality us insane. Plus you can add synology add ons for more functionality. If you attach a hard drive and configure correctly as time machine it appears as an available back up drive. To be fair I dont use it for that as I also have a synology nas which I do use for time machine.
The only downside to using a USB drive on a router is if its USB 3 it can Interfere with the 2.4ghz channel synology add a virtual switch to downgrade to usb2 to avoid that.
The only downside to using a USB drive on a router is if its USB 3 it can Interfere with the 2.4ghz channel synology add a virtual switch to downgrade to usb2 to avoid that.
That's over AFP, not SMB2. TM over AFP has been deprecated by Apple.
I found Synology routers to be subpar for filesharing. No btrfs, only ext4 as underlying filesystem. No RAID (though arguably with just support for USB devices, usefulness would be limited). No guest WiFi support either, and even in AP-only mode it continuously reaches out to various Internet addresses to "check reachability". No Docker hosting. Very limited set of packages compared to their bigger, Intel-based devices.
The 2.4 GHz band is dead anyway if you have neighbours.
All in all, with 10.13 you don't need to spend money on the macOS Server component anymore in order to allow sharing a TM backup target. So if you have a desktop, you can use that. And for WiFi there are much better and more featureful options available.
Asus RT-AC68U, Netgear R7000P, or even a QNAP or other NAS will support Time Machine.
The bad capacitors is hardly an "Apple" thing. Dozens, if not hundreds, of manufacturers of electronic gear of all sorts got caught up in the bootleg capacitor snafu.
This is getting more popular now that samba supports Time Machine natively, and you don't have to install Netatalk to support time machine on an open source platform. I imagine most products will be able to support Time Machine now, if they choose to.
This is a very sad development.
I suspect they weren't selling many, but that's because they were so good and reliable. The product was a victim of its own success.
My time capsule is by far the best router, and backup facility I have ever had. Simply outstanding.
I suspect they weren't selling many, but that's because they were so good and reliable. The product was a victim of its own success.
My time capsule is by far the best router, and backup facility I have ever had. Simply outstanding.
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That's more of a function of the luck of the draw of the supply chain used by each company's Contract Manufacturer than anything else.
And you should know that.
Yeah, probably not.
As a product manufacturer, I have the choice to order consumer grade, military grade or whatever else grade components for my machine.
It is up to me what I choose and I very likely know up front what the MTBF or anything else is before I use these components.
I also have the option to design in overhead to try and account for problems like this.
The Apple way of making everything thin and then throttle like crazy indicates that this is something they might not be doing.
Not entirely true. If you set up TM and then stop using it, you'll get bugged via notification popups. My wife had one pop up on her MacBook that said like 400 days
. (I gave her grief about it)
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Ah yes, of course... 400 days is quite the achievement.Not entirely true. If you set up TM and then stop using it, you'll get bugged via notification popups. My wife had one pop up on her MacBook that said like 400 days
Had a couple now. When the first one died I just replaced the hard drive, it’s still going strong. The hardest part was getting the rubber base off, it was well glued on. Unless the power supply fails, and even that can be replaced, they can go on for years.
As I pointed out previously, do some research on Mac owners having difficulty using NAS drives for Time Machine backups. I gave up trying to get a Western Digital My Home NAS drive to work as a TM server and a simple data server (it seems to need a internet connection which sought of defeats the purpose of a local cloud device).
I have opted for a fast, reliable thunderbolt HD attached to a "spare" Mac that any Mac on the network can access. That way I can do disk checks/repairs at any time - something that I cannot do with Time Capsule or other network drives.
Yeah, well, I have spec'ed plenty of parts, too in my life. So, I know how it works. These caps were NOT employed outside of their design-spec. They were DEFECTIVE. MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF THEM. Didn't matter if you put a 105C cap in a 70C application, or a 35V cap in a 15V application, they STILL FAILED. THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE APPARANTELY NOT GETTING!!!
This was a unique situation, in that, capacitors that were very much "in-spec' were actually DEFECTIVE, in such a way that they FAILED PREMATURELY, due to a STOLEN ELECTROLYTE FORMULA.
Apple didn't know this. I'm pretty sure their Contract Manufacturer didn't know either.
You need to learn some history. Apple was by NO means the only VICTIM. And this went on for EIGHT YEARS!!! :
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/jun/29/dell-problems-capacitors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/4xx5z9/plague
https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=323912
So, please tell me how this was Apple's fault. Answer: It wasn't. And it was doubly not their fault because it took a bit of time to start showing-up, and longer than that to be recognized as a pattern, and then longer than THAT to find out the REAL culprit (the bogus electrolyte). NONE of these were typical supply-line failures! They. Just. Weren't.
Yes, I have. And mostly without issues. I did have some credits errors, and reported them to Apple. They replied and investigated quite extensively.
Some of them seemed to be caused by bugs in Samba. Have you tried with the newest versions?
And don't even ask about all the update notifications. It's sobering to help a non-tech family member every once in a while and realize that a lot of users just the notifications that folks here would act on immediately. I'm surprised Apple doesn't make the super important ones red or something.
That's not the issue, just Apple is getting out of the router business. Tim Cook always said laser focus was important, and you can only be great in some places.
Don't let the Apple goggles fool you. Apple is pretty far behind in that area now, the competition is much better.
such a wasted opportunity, Apple.
Integration and/or control center for HomeKit, beautiful seamless UI and features controlled from a MacOS/iOS app, etc
Especially when all the money you shoved to iPhone development and you're slashing a third of production numbers because people won't buy them. Should've kept your diverse ecosystem healthy, Apple.
Integration and/or control center for HomeKit, beautiful seamless UI and features controlled from a MacOS/iOS app, etc
Especially when all the money you shoved to iPhone development and you're slashing a third of production numbers because people won't buy them. Should've kept your diverse ecosystem healthy, Apple.