New Product: Time Capsule

[Kaido]

Full Airport Extreme base station with "server grade" hard drive internal.

2 versions: 500 GB version - $299, 1 TB $499

Links later...

 

[Kaido]

It's a nice idea, but a single hard drive? I'm sticking with RAID and FreeNAS, thanks. Here's the one I did:

http://www.orionmods.com/blog/?p=5

I mean, 1TB for $499...get a DD-WRT compatible router and build a cheap FreeNAS machine to get the same/better functionality

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Kaido
It's a nice idea, but a single hard drive? I'm sticking with RAID and FreeNAS, thanks. Here's the one I did:

http://www.orionmods.com/blog/?p=5

I mean, 1TB for $499...get a DD-WRT compatible router and build a cheap FreeNAS machine to get the same/better functionality

agreed.

 

[Goosemaster]

endaget is DOWN!!

 

[Toasthead]

yeah but yours is not in that pretty apple packaging

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Toasthead
yeah but yours is not in that pretty apple packaging

Let me find some white paint and that Apple sticker that came with my last hardware purchase...

Edit: Especially important since it sits in an unused closet

 

[randomlinh]

how reliable has freenas been for you?

but yeah, the apple packaging will be nice and sleek and can just blend in. even the shuttle box is a bit too big. but yeah, a bit too much money. I'd use it as my tertiary backup though.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: randomlinh
how reliable has freenas been for you?

but yeah, the apple packaging will be nice and sleek and can just blend in. even the shuttle box is a bit too big. but yeah, a bit too much money. I'd use it as my tertiary backup though.

Absolutely, positively perfect. Software RAID is amazing. 90 day uptime, basically it's been up since I installed it, running perfect with over a terabyte stored on it.

The Apple packaging is nice if you keep your router on your desk, but mine is out of the way in the basement, so it doesn't really matter all that much to me. I know a lot of Mac users are into aesthetics (myself included) so it's important to many people to have the equipment fit in right. But for me, FreeNAS is the way to go - AFP, SMB, NFS, FTP - Leopard sees it right away in Finder and I can do quick transfers via AFP/SMB and faster large transfers via FTP.

 

[Toasthead]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Toasthead
yeah but yours is not in that pretty apple packaging

Let me find some white paint and that Apple sticker that came with my last hardware purchase...

Edit: Especially important since it sits in an unused closet

THats just because tis SOOO UGLY.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Toasthead

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Toasthead
yeah but yours is not in that pretty apple packaging

Let me find some white paint and that Apple sticker that came with my last hardware purchase...

Edit: Especially important since it sits in an unused closet

THats just because tis SOOO UGLY.

Ah, I can't argue with you there

 

[JackBurton]

They really should make it expandable to something like 10TB and also easily upgradeable. Say you start off with the 1TB core which includes the network interface (1Gbps wired & 802.11n wireless), and then Apple can sell 1TB add-ons for whatever price.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
They really should make it expandable to something like 10TB and also easily upgradeable. Say you start off with the 1TB core which includes the network interface (1Gbps wired & 802.11n wireless), and then Apple can sell 1TB add-ons for whatever price.

Stackables...that's a great idea!

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: JackBurton
They really should make it expandable to something like 10TB and also easily upgradeable. Say you start off with the 1TB core which includes the network interface (1Gbps wired & 802.11n wireless), and then Apple can sell 1TB add-ons for whatever price.

Stackables...that's a great idea!

ZFS over AFP/CIFS/SMB

:Q :heart:


<---still using ext3

 

[dnuggett]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Toasthead
yeah but yours is not in that pretty apple packaging

Let me find some white paint and that Apple sticker that came with my last hardware purchase...

Edit: Especially important since it sits in an unused closet

Glad to see the closet is unused. What about the hardware?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: dnuggett

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Toasthead
yeah but yours is not in that pretty apple packaging

Let me find some white paint and that Apple sticker that came with my last hardware purchase...

Edit: Especially important since it sits in an unused closet

Glad to see the closet is unused. What about the hardware?

does it matter? cheap HDs + raid + gigabit +secluded area = what's the problem again?

 

[TangoJuliet]

Just a quick question to see if I understand this correctly.

I plan on buying a time capsule and using it with my iMac. The TC will be used exclusively for Time Machine backups of the imac. I then plan to buy an external drive and hook that up to the TC and use it as a NAS.

Will that work correctly?

edit: this is what I plan on connecting it to (2x500GB RAID)
Link

 

[jhu]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
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ZFS over AFP/CIFS/SMB

:Q :heart:


<---still using ext3

what's wrong with ext3?

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: randomlinh
how reliable has freenas been for you?

but yeah, the apple packaging will be nice and sleek and can just blend in. even the shuttle box is a bit too big. but yeah, a bit too much money. I'd use it as my tertiary backup though.

Absolutely, positively perfect. Software RAID is amazing. 90 day uptime, basically it's been up since I installed it, running perfect with over a terabyte stored on it.

The Apple packaging is nice if you keep your router on your desk, but mine is out of the way in the basement, so it doesn't really matter all that much to me. I know a lot of Mac users are into aesthetics (myself included) so it's important to many people to have the equipment fit in right. But for me, FreeNAS is the way to go - AFP, SMB, NFS, FTP - Leopard sees it right away in Finder and I can do quick transfers via AFP/SMB and faster large transfers via FTP.

Last I heard, there were some serious reliability issues. I don't need raid really, just an easy to manage remote storage. Raid would just slow it all down and waste space for me (using it more of a tertiary backup/store tv shows, since i don't save them).

I'll have to look into it more. I'll have two 250GB drives when I shoot to replace them with a single 500GB. just need a cheap PATA drive now....

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: jhu

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
[
ZFS over AFP/CIFS/SMB

:Q :heart:


<---still using ext3

what's wrong with ext3?

Zeta sounds cooler

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: JackBurton
They really should make it expandable to something like 10TB and also easily upgradeable. Say you start off with the 1TB core which includes the network interface (1Gbps wired & 802.11n wireless), and then Apple can sell 1TB add-ons for whatever price.

Stackables...that's a great idea!

ZFS over AFP/CIFS/SMB

:Q :heart:


<---still using ext3

Laik this?

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/zfs/

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: randomlinh

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: randomlinh
how reliable has freenas been for you?

but yeah, the apple packaging will be nice and sleek and can just blend in. even the shuttle box is a bit too big. but yeah, a bit too much money. I'd use it as my tertiary backup though.

Absolutely, positively perfect. Software RAID is amazing. 90 day uptime, basically it's been up since I installed it, running perfect with over a terabyte stored on it.

The Apple packaging is nice if you keep your router on your desk, but mine is out of the way in the basement, so it doesn't really matter all that much to me. I know a lot of Mac users are into aesthetics (myself included) so it's important to many people to have the equipment fit in right. But for me, FreeNAS is the way to go - AFP, SMB, NFS, FTP - Leopard sees it right away in Finder and I can do quick transfers via AFP/SMB and faster large transfers via FTP.

Last I heard, there were some serious reliability issues. I don't need raid really, just an easy to manage remote storage. Raid would just slow it all down and waste space for me (using it more of a tertiary backup/store tv shows, since i don't save them).

I'll have to look into it more. I'll have two 250GB drives when I shoot to replace them with a single 500GB. just need a cheap PATA drive now....

None for me. This is my second (larger) FreeNAS machine and I couldn't be happier

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Any firm word on a release date for the TC? I am getting really annoyed with my old Netgear router, which seems to work particularly poorly with Leopard for some reason, and want to pick up a 500GB TC.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Don Vito Corleone
Any firm word on a release date for the TC? I am getting really annoyed with my old Netgear router, which seems to work particularly poorly with Leopard for some reason, and want to pick up a 500GB TC.

Should be any day now...

http://store.apple.com/1-800-M...de=home&nplm=MB277LL/A

Says: Ships Februrary

And apple products are usually released for sale on Tuesdays, so either Tomm or Next Tuesday (though when apple says a specific month, its usually the last available chance that month)