Time capsule or other hard drive

[Mac'nCheese]

I will be buying a new imac soon. I currently have the old fashioned, round airport which works fine. I'll need a new back up hard drive to do backups. Question: do people recommend the expensive time capsule for backups and for faster internet? Or is my old airport just fine and I should buy a cheaper hard drive for backups?

 

[flopticalcube]

You won't get faster internet as you are probably limited by the speed of your provider. The Time Capsule is not without issues, particularly heat-related. I would just by a USB external for your iMac.

 

[RaceTripper]

I use a Time Capsule, but only because we use laptops. It's really pretty slow and can be very frustrating if you need to deal with full backup or restores (like I am now after having my internal hard drive replaced). If I had desktop Macs instead I would using directly attached hard drives. I also do SuperDuper backups to two rotating portable drives for offsite backup.

 

[flynz4]

I use a Time Capsule, but only because we use laptops. It's really pretty slow and can be very frustrating if you need to deal with full backup or restores (like I am now after having my internal hard drive replaced). If I had desktop Macs instead I would using directly attached hard drives. I also do SuperDuper backups to two rotating portable drives for offsite backup.

I also use a TC (2TB) for our Macs. I am backing up a 2TB i7 iMac, 15" MBP, and a MBA. It is working for us now (about 1TB used)... but would be a problem if I really filled up the 2TB iMac.

The iMac is wired (1Gb ethernet), and the two laptops are connected via wireless. I made the initial backups using a wired connection to the laptops, and the incremental backups have been using wireless. Doing this, the speed has not been a problem.

/Jim