Apple leaves AirPort Extreme (802.11n) owners out to dry
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So Apple announced at Macworld the release of Time Capsule. Below is a description from Apple:
Time Capsule includes a wireless 500GB or 1TB hard drive1 designed to work with Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard. Just set Time Capsule as the designated backup drive for Time Machine, and that’s it. Depending on how much data you have, your initial backup with Time Capsule could take overnight or longer. After it completes, only changed files are backed up — automatically, wirelessly, and in the background. So you never have to worry about backing up again. Time Capsule is your one place for backing up everything. Its massive 500GB or 1TB server-grade hard drive gives you all the capacity and safety you need. So whether you have 250 songs or 250,000 songs to back up, room is the last thing you’ll run out of. And considering all that storage and protection come packaged in a high-speed Wi-Fi base station starting at $299, data isn’t the only thing you’re saving.
So about two months ago I bought the AirPort Extreme (802.11n) thinking it would be cool to plug my 500 gig drive into it to act as a mini file server. Well, with the latest firmware update the USB disc feature does not work with large drives like Apple advertised nor does Time Machine work over the network. So what pisses me off is that, Apple has now released Time Capsule which you can configure Time Machine to do backups over the network.
So did Apple fix the AirPort Extreme (802.11n) drive issue, and not release the update but only left us out in the cold once again to upgrade to Time Capsule? There has been numerous discussions on the Apple support forums about this exact issue as well. Apple has even gone as far as deleting posts because they just dont want to fix this USB disc issue.
I really hope Apple enables Time Machine support for hdd’s connected via the AirPort Extreme (802.11n) USB port. I really don’t see what the issue would be, it’s no different then the new Time Capsule devices. Apple, why leave your customers out in the cold like this? Guess ill just have to wait till Time Capsule comes out so I can get my hands on the firmware, and possibly just apply it to my Extreme N.
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