Is AirPort Extreme still useful for Local Storage even today?

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Is AirPort Extreme still useful for Local Storage even today?

I have an AirPort Extreme that's been sat in the cupboard for a few years now (since 2015). It was great when we first started using it to connect our Wifi devices and as a backup device for our Macs but our BT wifi router is excellent and so I'm trying to decide if the AirPort Extreme can still be of any use? With iCloud storage it doesn't even seem to be useful to back up to. Is it any good as local storage and can it be considered to just acts as spare storage? Does to have any value/use?

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Posted on Jul 4, 2024 11:20 AM

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Bob Timmons

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Jul 4, 2024 12:29 PM in response to nobodylikechange

An AirPort Extreme does not have an internal hard drive, so if the device that you are calling an AirPort Extreme does have an internal hard drive it is a Time Capsule.

If you have any Mac computers at your place.....you can configure Time Machine on each Mac to automatically back up to the Time Capsule over the BT Wi-Fi network.

In other words, backups will be "seamless". You won't really be aware that each Mac is backing up every day.

However......if you have not used the Time Capsule for almost 10 years and you used it for several years before that time, the device is probably 12-13 years old, although the hard drive might only have 3-4 years use on the product.

I would not recommend that you use the Time Capsule as your primary backup plan for your Macs, but you could use it as a secondary back up device until the hard drive fails.

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