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Apple "Time Machine" reliability

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I was wondering if anyone else here has any experience with the apple "time machine" NAS solution? In my experience it's incredibly unreliable, so unreliable that two have died on my dad, the family apple 'enthusiast' (though this did result in me getting two free WD HDDs so I won't complain). So has anyone else had one die on them or is my dad just really unlucky? I convinced him not to get a new one, and that I'll help him build a NAS in the near future so he can repair it if it ever breaks(unlike the time machine which would cost more to fix than replace 'cause apple logic).

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Just buy an external hard drive and use it to back up the Mac. I have tried backing up to a NAS on my MacBook with no luck. That probably has something to do with the fact that it was formatted NTFS.

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Never once had an issue, not with Apple Time Machine, nor with a 3rd party implementation of the protocol. 

Huh. The first one had a PSU failure, the second started showing drive failures no matter which drive we put in it, so I assume there was something wrong with the computer in there, not any of the disks.

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... no matter which drive we put in it...

 

you took it apart...? you're aware you can take that back and apple will generally replace it for free.... especially if it is a software issue.

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you took it apart...? you're aware you can take that back and apple will generally replace it for free.... especially if it is a software issue.

:blink: don't look at me, I just follow instructions xD

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:blink: don't look at me, I just follow instructions xD

should have followed the Apple instructions of "returning defective hardware"

 

also, if you didn't format the drives correctly, theres no way the TM would have recognized the drives.

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