With an AirPort Extreme Base Station and attached USB hard drive, you gain more flexibility. If the AirPort Time Capsule’s hard drive fails, it’s difficult to replace, and if you want to upgrade the wireless gateway side of the equation, there’s no easy way to bring your backups over to the new device. What’s most compelling about backing up to an AirPort Disk, as opposed to an AirPort Time Capsule, is that you’re not combining two entirely unrelated pieces of hardware in one package. In fact, someone did notice - the late Time Machine expert James “Pondini” Pond called it out on his site in June alas, he passed away in September 2013 at the age of 70 and will be missed. Apparently, Mac users really don’t usually read the manual. That’s in complete contradiction to the 5-year-old prohibition against pointing Time Machine at an AirPort Disk, and the change has gone almost entirely unnoticed since June 2013, despite being prominently mentioned on page 13 of the manual for the new AirPort Extreme Base Station. Time Machine cannot back up data to external drives connected to other AirPort Extreme base station models” “Time Machine can only back up to an external drive connected to an AirPort Extreme 802.11ac base station. “Addresses an issue that prevents a USB hard drive connected to an AirPort Extreme from appearing as an available disk in Time Machine”Īnd once I went looking for confirmation, I found it in Apple’s “ Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac” document, which says: “Time Machine is not supported with USB hard drives that are connected to an AirPort Express or AirPort Extreme device.”īut a release note for the recent “ AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.7.2” (21 November 2013) caught my eye while I was editing our coverage (this update applies only to the newest 802.11ac base stations released in June 2013). In fact, Apple still makes that statement in “ AirPort base stations: Time Machine hard drive compatibility,” saying clearly: On subsequent updates to Mac OS X, we checked to see if the feature had returned, and some users managed to make it work, but Apple steadfastly maintained thatīacking up to an AirPort Disk was unsupported, and eventually we stopped looking. However, by the time Leopard shipped, Apple had pulled the feature (see “ Time Machine via AirPort Disk Is Unsupported, Apple Says,” 7 April 2008), focusing networked Time Machine backups on the Time Capsule (now called AirPort Time Capsule).
In betas of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple introduced a feature that enabled Time Machine backup to a USB hard drive attached to an AirPort Extreme Base Station.
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