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I am in the market for a wireless hard drive and am thinking a 2-3 TB option would be the most future proof. While searching around, I came upon the Apple airport time capsule. On Ebay, this seems reasonable for the storage I want - can anyone suggest if there are any no nos with this, or if it's an alternative to a sea gate or WD?

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Apple are dropping support for Airport.

Might be a useful read:
https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/22/opinion-time-capsule-airport-extreme-airport-express/

I have a WD MyCloud unit that I was using for Timemachine, but it was ridiculously slow. Timemachine backups could take days to complete, even via an Ethernet cable let alone by WiFi. If I copy files directly to it then it's not too bad.

I've recently reconfigured our network, so may try again, but I'm not hopeful that it will be any better than before.
 
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gremlin16 said:
another vote for a 4tb WD my cloud. It backs up PC, 3 iPads, 2 iPhones all via wifi, whether in the house or anywhere there is a cellular signal. Brilliant,
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I'm running the exact same system and works great! Wifi transfer speeds aren't anything to write home about but not terrible either. For the money it's a nice all in one solution.
 
Ben6 said:
I'm running the exact same system and works great! Wifi transfer speeds aren't anything to write home about but not terrible either. For the money it's a nice all in one solution.
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That sounds really good - and I take it, everything is accessible as well while you're out and about on a different network? (Cellular or wifi, outside of the U.K. Etc?
 
stickytape said:
That sounds really good - and I take it, everything is accessible as well while you're out and about on a different network? (Cellular or wifi, outside of the U.K. Etc?
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Yes completely accessible. We've accessed it while on holiday in Crete and while in the U.K. Too. I'm starting to look to put all my DVD collection on there soon and stream it all from that.
 
Ben6 said:
Yes completely accessible. We've accessed it while on holiday in Crete and while in the U.K. Too. I'm starting to look to put all my DVD collection on there soon and stream it all from that.
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Sounds ideal! What sort of price did you pay for yours if you don't mind me asking? I'm thinking a 3TB min would be ideal for longevity
 
I've had mine quite a while but from memory about £150 for 4tb. 4tb will cover me for a long time to be honest. I also back the mycloud up to another 4tb external drive too though so I've got an additional backup.
 
As others have said, Wireless hard drivers are unlikely to become a thing in terms of replacing cabled ones.

Copying a 4GB file at home from my Macbook to a wired networked hard drive takes so much longer than plugging in and doing it.

The speeds advertised by home Wireless routers or AP's is just marketing gimmick as there is so much involved.

My AP's are home are Cisco and should be giving me 150Mbps in each direction but even standing right under them I barely get half that at best, could be the Wifi card in the Macbook but there are so many variables.
 
neil_g said:
One thing, it's going to be SLOW. Wireless is not ever going to be good for data transfer if you're moving data about.
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oh yeah...so sloooow
 
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