Hardware/ Firmware is the real question for AEBS owners
I'm looking forward to someone tearing one of these open. If the Time Capsule uses the same USB device/ controller as in the AEBS, then we just need a firmware upgrade to get the AEBS to work with Time Machine and stable AirDisks. If it's a different controller, then I'll be taking me TWO AEBS's (one at work, one at home) back to the store and demanding store credit towards the TC's.
BTW- has anyone tried to return their Airport Extreme? Even though the "promises" to work with Time Machine were pulled pre-leopard and all product info was due to change, it still advertises as letting multiple machines use AirDisk and connect to a networked drive, which, by all accounts, doesn't work. My AirDisk is actually relatively stable- but relatively stable means that I restart my AEBS at LEAST once a day. I've just gotten used to it. I would say that it most definitely DOES NOT work as advertised and is a faulty product.
On a related note, since the TC works with external drives now, why would anyone buy the 1TB version? I know you can't transfer the TM files from one drive to another (though there are hints that SuperDuper might be able to do this), but I'd rather buy a cheaper 1TB external drive for TM of a couple machines and use the 500GB internal for file storage/ AirDisk access.
I'm looking forward to someone tearing one of these open. If the Time Capsule uses the same USB device/ controller as in the AEBS, then we just need a firmware upgrade to get the AEBS to work with Time Machine and stable AirDisks. If it's a different controller, then I'll be taking me TWO AEBS's (one at work, one at home) back to the store and demanding store credit towards the TC's.
BTW- has anyone tried to return their Airport Extreme? Even though the "promises" to work with Time Machine were pulled pre-leopard and all product info was due to change, it still advertises as letting multiple machines use AirDisk and connect to a networked drive, which, by all accounts, doesn't work. My AirDisk is actually relatively stable- but relatively stable means that I restart my AEBS at LEAST once a day. I've just gotten used to it. I would say that it most definitely DOES NOT work as advertised and is a faulty product.
On a related note, since the TC works with external drives now, why would anyone buy the 1TB version? I know you can't transfer the TM files from one drive to another (though there are hints that SuperDuper might be able to do this), but I'd rather buy a cheaper 1TB external drive for TM of a couple machines and use the 500GB internal for file storage/ AirDisk access.