i have a linksys n router would like to go apple so what's the best way to go
TC or AE w/drive??
can you add drives to both for future expansion, and what about booting up from this disk?
right now i use superduper with 2 firewire drive(triple interface drives), can these be added??

Personally, my opinion would be to keep the backup target disk seperate from a network device. Should a time capsul fail or ever need to be serviced, you are effectivly loosing both your router and system backups at the same time. From what I understand, the Time Capsule will not function with the hard drive removed, nor is there a way to remove the drive without violating warrenty.

What I like about the Airport Extreme approach (which I can now thankfully take advantage of) is that as long as the hard drive is recognizable by the unit as a USB device, I can effectivly add as much (or as little) storage as I want.

So while I may decide that 500GB is enough for me now as a backup target, I can easilly bump it up to 1TB or higher by swapping out the hard drive attached to the Airport, or even through the adding of a USB raid enclosure.

Then again... this is only my opinion. \

Quote:

Originally Posted by NOFEER

i have a linksys n router would like to go apple so what's the best way to go
TC or AE w/drive??
can you add drives to both for future expansion, and what about booting up from this disk?
right now i use superduper with 2 firewire drive(triple interface drives), can these be added??

Methinks it's possible the bug causing the delay for "AirDisk" backup might have been the bug up someone's butt to get out a high-margin Apple-branded TimeCapsule product people would buy first before they released the capability to do it with a cheap third-party disk.

I ran out and bought one and have both a USB drive and a AE. I think I am still good for 14 days to return it. hmmmm

The USB disk need not be connected to AEBS. I am able to back up via WiFi to a USB disk that is connected to another Mac. Both machines have 10.5.2. Actually, Time Machine can 'see' all the hard disks, both internal and external, in all the Macs in my network.

I always suspected, having advertised this as a feature initially, they would fix it. Many said it was removed simply to sell more Time Capsules. I am glad to see Apple, as usual, have done the right thing. I was one of many that did buy all the equipment specifically to do this so I am thrilled.

Thank you Apple.

I have a USB connected harddrive that i've been using for months now. How do i go about plugging it into my Airport Extreme and noticing it? I did the software and firmware updates, plugged it in, and the drive is there in finder, but can't be selected in the Time Machine settings.

Three cheers for time machine backups to USB disks! Even though I have a TC myself.

Anyway, I had hoped that the airport driver update would speed up airport re-connect after sleep, but no such luck.
I can still open the laptop, press cmd-L to open a Safari window, type an address, press return and get the "you are not connected to the internet", and no, I am not really that fast, so that is disappointing.
And yes, I have thrown away .plists and network keys/settings and set IPV6 to "off", but no difference.

Oh well, maybe 10.5.3.