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 Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:42 am Post subject: Can you connect multiple hard drives to Airport Extreme BS? |
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Just wondering if you can use a USB hub to connect 2 or 3 hard drives to an airport extreme base station? Also is there any news of Apple allowing you to use time machine on an external drive connected to an Airport base station.
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trustory
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Ok found out you can connect multiple devices using a hub, but I can't find any word on wether you can use time machine on a connected hard drive.
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That feature is exclusive to the Time Capsule for now. 
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| g5g5 wrote: | | That feature is exclusive to the Time Capsule for now. |
Am i dreaming if I remember Jobs saying you could back up to a networked drive when he previewed leopard back at the WWDC?
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trustory
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It would be the ideal solution if it weren't for the fact you can't partition the drive so Time Machine will eventually eat up all the free space.
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| trustory wrote: | | Am i dreaming if I remember Jobs saying you could back up to a networked drive when he previewed leopard back at the WWDC? |
It was touted as a feature and then pulled. There are many theories, but no one really knows why. It could be the hardware, firmware, or fact that Apple wants to get TC sales off the ground. |
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I guess I could buy the 500gb TC and attach a USB HDD to it which I could partition to what ever size I fancy and use a partition on that as my TM drive then use the rest of the space as network storage.
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