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My Time Capsule has gone the way of all flesh and I have purchased an NAS enclosure for the disk that used to be inside my now dead TC. While the NAS I bought is quite nice and very inexpensive it only works with disks formatted for exFAT and is thus useless for Time Machine. I have looked for a relatively inexpensive dual bay NAS that will handle 3.5 inch drives and are compatible with HFS+ but have no real experience knowing what is good and what is not.
A single bay would work if all I wanted to do was use it for Time Machine but it might be nice to have a dual bay so I could dedicate one bay to Time Machine and the other to sharing between our various computers (Mac and Windows) so one bay would be HFS+ and the other exFAT. I don't even know if any devices do that so I am unsure what to look for. I don't need to do any video streaming as we seldom watch any TV.
It would be helpful if there was a USB 3 connection (rather than USB 2) just in case I need to copy data directly to or from the device. Cost is a large consideration, but so it quality as I want to buy something I will not have to fret over constantly.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
A single bay would work if all I wanted to do was use it for Time Machine but it might be nice to have a dual bay so I could dedicate one bay to Time Machine and the other to sharing between our various computers (Mac and Windows) so one bay would be HFS+ and the other exFAT. I don't even know if any devices do that so I am unsure what to look for. I don't need to do any video streaming as we seldom watch any TV.
It would be helpful if there was a USB 3 connection (rather than USB 2) just in case I need to copy data directly to or from the device. Cost is a large consideration, but so it quality as I want to buy something I will not have to fret over constantly.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.