Pros and Cons of Hardware Time Machine vs Server Time Machine
My Time Machine is the old model and appears to be getting a bit unstable. I have to restart it at least once a week now as it often appears offline when the light is green. I also have two computers with ac wifi.
I have installed Yosemite Server on my primary iMac 5K retina with a 3 TB hard drive, which I use two external drives for Time Machine backups and clone the internal drive to an external Thunderbolt 2 drive. The other Macs are now backed up to the Time Machine hardware and the Server Time Machine facility. This gives me at least a minimum of two backups for each machine.
I plan to buy either a new Airport or Time Machine. I would like to know the pros and cons of replacing my Time Machine router with a new Airport and using Server on my iMac for all of my backups. As an aside, I have found the backups to the Mac Server to be very fast compared to the Time Machine router.
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)