Will the USB connected hard disk provide sharing support NAS via Apple AFP protocol so that it works with the Apple Timemachine backup application?
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I'm not a regular Mac user, so cannot answer this question with 100% certainty. To streamline the backup process, Apple has made it a bit challenging to use Time Machine with a network drive. To have Time Machine back up to the USB connected network drive you would have to create a HFS+ disk image, mount it to its permanent home, and point Time Machine there.
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Well, I have a Mac and I just use the built-in time machine backup which does all of that automatically. So, I haven't used any of the backup software that comes with the hard drive, sorry!
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Yes it is. Synology has documented the process quite well, http://www.synology.com/en-global/support/tutorials/481. I backup several iMacs and a Mac Mini Server to our Synology. One of the iMacs is connected using wifi, but I haven't experienced any failures.
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I imagine so, but I cannot confirm. I have mine (the 2 TB model) daisy chained with two older 1TB WD My Studio drives, running into a thunderbolt port, and have had not problems. Comp &lt; 2TB [firewire to thunderbolt] &lt; 1TB [firewire 800] &lt; 1TB [firewire 800] They are really pretty much a plug and play solution, set them up once, and forget em. I wish I would have ponied up the other fifty or so bucks and for the 3TB to run as time machine. Hope this helps.
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Not out of the box...the backup features the Time Capsule uses are built into the Mac OS X software. This link might help explain it better than I could: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5229376
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I am using it to back up my entire HD with my MacBook Pro. I am not using it with Time Machine. Works fast and is excellent for my use.
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The simple answer is "I don't know" since the ds114 is the first server I have ever used and I can't find any specs on the ds110j. Having said that, I was able to back up my data from another drive connected to its USB port at the full USB2 speed. Using the Diskstation Audio server, it has successfully played the two HDTRACKS 192K Albums that I own to the receiver downstairs. Being new to this NAS thing, assuming the ds110j can use the latest version of DSM, I'm not sure what the differences may be.
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I actually have the WD My Passport for Mac 1TB and it is functional with OS X Yosemite (version 10.10.1). I back up my MacBook Pro approx. every ten days.
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Yes it will. I'm not sure about brand of nas. For me, I have it connected to a Windows smb file share and it works great. It can be connected to smb, nfs and ftp for remote storage.
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Yes, it will, if the DiskStation (DS) is connected (wired) to the wireless router. However, i'd rather use a wired connection between the Mac and the DS, preferably a 1 Gigabit one. And would manually adjust the ethernet MTU (maximum transmission unit) on both Mac and DiskStation to 9000 bytes. This way, you'd get up to 60/70 Mb/s on the transfer from your Mac to the DiskStation and your backups would be very fast. Hope it helps!
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There is a difference between Mac compatibility and Time Machine compatibility.Time Machine is much more stable with AFP, which this does not support. But Mac OS X can read/write to Samba shares (just not Time Machine), which this does.So, yes, this is compatible with Mac. No, it will not be very reliable with Time Machine.
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I use this Buffalo Link Station Pro Duo to back up both a PC and two MacBooks and it works fine for me. You could use your Time Capsule in addition to this if you would like at the same time. See the Apple & Buffalo web sites for details.
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I have a MacBookPro 17" Model A1229 from late 2007 with both Firewire 800 and 400. I use Firewire 800 to my Passport 1TB purchased from Amazon several months ago. I have it set to do auto Time Machine Backups every day. Never any problems. The new USB 3.0 is 600MB/s, Firewire 800 is 75MB/s, USB 2.0 is 60MB/s, and Firewire400 is 50MB/s. Firewire 400 will work fine, and is still offered as an option on the new drives. Good luck, hope this helps. Bill Rhodes
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Hello, I use it on a mac pro, but when I install the hard drive from my old imac worked fine, the connectors are the same.
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This will work as well as any other drive. The advantage of this style unit is that it is self contained. There are many external enclosures or NAS boxes available that will do the same thing. This is a reasonably priced plug'n'play method. Just make sure you know how much data there is to backup , then make sure you get something equal to or bigger in capacity. If you love your data then multiple backup drives are a smart option. I am not a fan of Apple in general but the backup software they include with OS X (Time Machine) is quite nice.
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This is not a NAS or a "giant networked hard drive". It is a 5-bay Direct-Attach-Storage device. It connects to a single host machine via Thunderbolt.
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Yes, I run it connected to an iMac running Mac OS 10.9 as the backup for Time Machine. Works very well.