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<blockquote data-quote="JonnyAlpha" data-source="post: 835557" data-attributes="member: 67032"><p>I looked at the Airport Extreme and one of the reviews seem to point out that it too suffers from USB data transfer if a USB HDD is plugged into the Airports USB port:</p><p></p><p><em>Con's</em></p><p><em>-File transfer speeds incredible slow to external USB drive, especially when using with Backup. Perhaps the time capsule is better? Around 2.0MB/s, which is apparently due to its ability to its process to process the information rather than actually transfer it.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>You can transfer much faster to any other computer (or external hard drive attached to that computer) connected to the base station. A 25Gb fresh backup this way took about 1hr, which is pretty good.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Overall DO buy this if you want a good, fast router/ home network, perhaps DON'T if you want to seriously use an USB attached drive</em>.</p><p></p><p>Can you only plug 1 x USB device into the USB port or can you attach a USB Hub and attach say an external HDD and a Printer (which is what I need to do).</p><p></p><p>What if I attached my external HDD to my imac and can I set up Time Machine to use an external HDD attached to another machine.</p><p></p><p>Looks like I may have wasted my money on the verbatim HDD, when what I needed was a network drive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JonnyAlpha, post: 835557, member: 67032"] I looked at the Airport Extreme and one of the reviews seem to point out that it too suffers from USB data transfer if a USB HDD is plugged into the Airports USB port: [I]Con's -File transfer speeds incredible slow to external USB drive, especially when using with Backup. Perhaps the time capsule is better? Around 2.0MB/s, which is apparently due to its ability to its process to process the information rather than actually transfer it. You can transfer much faster to any other computer (or external hard drive attached to that computer) connected to the base station. A 25Gb fresh backup this way took about 1hr, which is pretty good. Overall DO buy this if you want a good, fast router/ home network, perhaps DON'T if you want to seriously use an USB attached drive[/I]. Can you only plug 1 x USB device into the USB port or can you attach a USB Hub and attach say an external HDD and a Printer (which is what I need to do). What if I attached my external HDD to my imac and can I set up Time Machine to use an external HDD attached to another machine. Looks like I may have wasted my money on the verbatim HDD, when what I needed was a network drive. [/QUOTE]
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