I'd rather not see crossposting
Gimme a break. The threads are about similar topics and many people never visit the forums, only writing in frontpage threads. How about you stay topical?
I'd rather not see crossposting
Did you use the Lacie as a direct connect to your computer before this? I only ask because I had to re-do my direct connect Seagate FreeAgent and forgot to use the GUID partition trick the second time around. It was slow, slow, slow on direct connect. Once formated right it worked fine as a direct connect to my computer. I can only imagine how slow the wrong formatting would be using the Airport Extreme.
Well, I can't get this to work.
Installed all updates, formatted my USB WD 250Gb to GUID, connected it to my AE, but it still doesn't show up in my Airport Utility or Time Machine Preferences, although Finder does see the USB-WD connected to my AE. Heck, I can even transfer files to it, but TM won't see it.
Any work-around for this?
i have an airport extreme and everything!!
but is it worth spending $130 on leopard?
just for time machine and the other updates![]()
i have an airport extreme and everything!!
but is it worth spending $130 on leopard?
just for time machine and the other updates![]()
i have an airport extreme and everything!!
but is it worth spending $130 on leopard?
just for time machine and the other updates![]()
You'll get USB 1.1 performance from even the newest Airport Extreme. Apple built the unit with the slowest USB processor available. Although it shows up as USB 2.x, all benchmarks will reveal 1.1 speeds. But do your own testing.
This sort of post usually gets bounced on this never-knock-apple forum, so maybe you'll get lucky and read it before the little forum monitors move it to hidden the bad-attitude section
Man, looking through your post history I think maybe your attitude has more to do with your posts going into the bad-attitude section than the subject of them.
Man, looking through your post history I think maybe your attitude has more to do with your posts going into the bad-attitude section than the subject of them.
Never end a sentence with a preposition. And if you ax me, I think my attitude has nothing to do with bad posts in the attitude bin but the good attitude but just ignorant in the bad attitude section of good post history of a sanitized web site in the wrong to of it. Or to do with.
And the Extreme's USB performance still sux, although the 802.11N is par none. If you guys want a NAS that has decent performance, then go get a true NAS box. Don't fool yourself into thinking the Extreme will work with disk IO just because it say's Apple on the logo [5000 good-attitude posts to support your purchase just won't make it any better]
Thank you
Control
No - The USB port on the Airport Express is reserved for connecting printers only.
Edit: Well on wireless G at least, not sure on the new N models.
I had this problem when I changed the drive icon. Hook the drive up to your mac via USB, hit cmd-I and wipe out the drive icon (if you changed it). Then unmount the disk and hook it back up to your extreme. ( I might have rebooted the router too)
That worked for me.
This works fine for the single machine you formatted the drive on. For other Mac's on the network it still doesn't solve it.
I've been using this USB drive for time machine before getting the Airport express, but now that I have the latter, would like to do wireless backups. It wasn't clear to me from the posts in this forum whether I have to reformat even in this case, which would suck because I'd have to find temporary storage room for all the data. The drive doesn't appear in the finder, and is not visible to Time Machine at present.
Thanks in advance for any advice on this.