Possibility of Apple Home Server??

[BG-Mac]

With the announcement of HD downloads my hard drive is reaching its breaking point. This seems to be exactly what I need and want. What do you think the possibility Apple releases something like this in the near future?

http://gizmodo.com/5120123/apple-ho...are-music-movies-and-photos-over-the-internet

 

[Tallest Skil]

Pre-MacWorld travesty. Unlikely.

 

[ButtUglyJeff]

Call it what you want but a Mac Mini with an external hard drive/drives is the closest thing we'll see in a while...........

 

[MisterMe]

With the announcement of HD downloads my hard drive is reaching its breaking point. This seems to be exactly what I need and want. ...

A bigger hard drive is much cheaper than a new computer.

 

[KnightWRX]

A bigger hard drive is much cheaper than a new computer.

But a bigger hard drive requires that you either keep your computer powered on to share its content or that you lug around the house from computer to computer.

I got a home NAS solution (QNAP TS 209 Pro) and I haven't looked back since. All my videos/music is available everywhere in the house, and since me and my girlfriend use laptops exclusively, I don't need to keep anything but the QNAP powered up.

As it is, we only need the computer's hard drive to install applications on and for temporary data that we need to drag along outside the house. Everything else is stored on the NAS.

 

[Aegelward]

I don't think there is any technical reason that apple can't offer this functionality with the time capsule and the base station.

Except to sell another product.

 

[azdunerat]

whats so hard about plugging your exteranl HD into an AEBS and accessing it from anywhere in your network??

It seems to work just fine with access speeds that will work for most users