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Reliability of TM via Airport Extreme

adam9c1

adam9c1

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I have a 3rd gen Airport Extreme and I'm thinking of connecting a USB HD to run TM from.
Is this type of setup working OK?

Wikipedia states this is not officially supported (is that info wrong / out of date)?
 
belvdr said:
Funny, it used to be supported on the 4th gen as well. I guess they wanted to sunset support older model support. I can't say I blame them.
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My memory may be off, but I don't think it was ever supported on the Extreme until the new AC model.
 
Weaselboy said:
My memory may be off, but I don't think it was ever supported on the Extreme until the new AC model.
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It was one of features Apple touted if you wanted to bring your own hard drive, which I did because, at the time, the Time Capsule power supplies seemed to religiously fail at 18 months.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort_Extreme
[doublepost=1490817076][/doublepost]Also, Apple says it is supported here:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202807

I am not sure which is authoritative.
 
This is at the bottom of your link. I really think it is just the AC models that are supported.

Time Machine support for USB disks

OS X Time Machine supports compatible unencrypted USB disks connected to AirPort Time Capsule (802.11n and 802.11ac), and AirPort Extreme (802.11ac).
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you're confusing USB disk sharing and using that disk as a time capsule. Apple does not consider the two the same thing. The disk sharing on airport was merely intended to be a sort of home NAS for multiple computers to access. Apple never officially supported time capsule disk usage on airports prior to the AC.
 
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