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Time to replace my Time Capsule. What are my best options?

Loved the functionality of Time Capsule. All our Apple equipment backs up to it. iPad and iPhones are backed up to our Macs and those automatically back up to Time Capsule. Plus it is also a fantastic router. Unfortunately it is getting a bit long in the tooth and the hard drive is starting to make noise. I need a solution before it stops working. Options???



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Posted on Mar 14, 2023 10:48 AM

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Posted on Mar 14, 2023 12:26 PM

The Time Capsule was a unique product in that it combined a Wi-Fi router with a hard drive in a single package. No other manufacturer ever offered the same kind of product, so strictly speaking you really have no other options to a Time Capsule in that regard.


The best that you can do at this point would be to look at a router from Asus or Synology that offers a USB port to which you could attach a separate USB hard drive to back up that way. There may be other routers that offer a similar feature, but I am not aware of any of them.


Perhaps we will hear from other users who have been able to make Time Machine backups work to a USB hard drive connected to their Wi-Fi router.





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Mar 14, 2023 12:26 PM in response to JN Ingleside

The Time Capsule was a unique product in that it combined a Wi-Fi router with a hard drive in a single package. No other manufacturer ever offered the same kind of product, so strictly speaking you really have no other options to a Time Capsule in that regard.


The best that you can do at this point would be to look at a router from Asus or Synology that offers a USB port to which you could attach a separate USB hard drive to back up that way. There may be other routers that offer a similar feature, but I am not aware of any of them.


Perhaps we will hear from other users who have been able to make Time Machine backups work to a USB hard drive connected to their Wi-Fi router.





Time to replace my Time Capsule. What are my best options?

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