Should I get a Time Capsule or wait to fill up my 500gb SSD on my iMac and then get this?
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If you have not filled up your 500 gb then you do not anything this big. A 1 or 3 TB Time Capsule work just fine. I have a 12 TB media library and these for great for that.
653583
Yes, it does. I have used the same time Capsule for more than 5 years, having switched iMac's six times as I continuously upgrade. It works with any iteration of Apple OSX. Love that it just works - period. Never an issue, never a failure. Zero problems in 5 years.
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I have an imac core2duo from late 2006/early 2007 that was running Tiger 10.4.11. I ordered this under $30 update disc to upgrade to snow leopard after being told at the local Apple store that it positively would not work and I needed the expensive box set instead. Well, so much for their geniuses-it worked just fine. 45 minutes to go to 10.6.3 then another 30 to download all of the newest updates and it's running perfectly. I did order a 2 gig memory module to take me to 3 gig total, the most my machine can recognize. This is definitely worth a try if you are thinking of upgrading. I also did a complete backup of my hard drive first. It would also be handy to have an empty external drive on hand (320-500 gigs are available cheap) to set up for time machine backups. Good luck-go for it!
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I've got an older 20" iMac (2009?) with the black back. It runs pretty hot and loud, but seems to be fine. I've recently replaced the 1TB WD black with the 2TB variant and it's been running fine for at least six months. If I could do it over, I'd buy a fast, quiet SSD and use external drives for data. Of course, that's going to cost a lot more.
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Absolutely. I actually have two of these externals and they're both hooked up by USB 2.0 to my 27" iMac which is 5 years old and doesn't have 3.0 ports. I read that 2.0 is slower but they transfer data rapidly so I don't feel like they're too slow. They're great little drives. They take up hardly any space and they are extremely quiet. I don't even hear them. I've had no trouble with them. My last hard drive was also a Porsche and I used it for 8 years without a hiccup. You won't see me buying anything but this brand because they have been so reliable.
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You could and it would work fine. I think that the drive would probably preform better hooked directly up to your iMac
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Wow! I think it'd depend on how you use it and set it up. For me the 4TB with thunderbolt has been faster. But I use it mainly for moving data between my mac and the backups.
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If it worked and I don't think it would, you would be waisting about $200 dollars on functionality you don't need. Buy an Mac compatible external hard drive instead and use Time Machine to back up with it.
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I would't risk it. I bought this dock and connected 2 Seagate 3TBs. It initially worked, so I went ahead and back up ALL my data. The next day the dock kept getting disconnected and now my IMAC won't even mount the drives. I tried another dock and seems that the drives have been fried by the Thermaltake dock. There goes 2.5TB of data!
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I have and iMac computer with "Time Machine" installed. Time Machine automatically backs up everything on my iMac onto the Seagate Goflex. I have only had it for a short while, but to date I am very satisfied with my purchase. Hope this helps.
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There are benefits and cons to both. The biggest pro for the Time Capsule is of course the embedded HD. The reason I brought that up specifically is because my Airport Extreme has had issues connecting to my Seagate 3TB HD (STCA3000101). After determining that the USB cable was the problem it's been working fine ever since. The pro with the Airport Extreme is the ability to use different hard drives with increased capacity.
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If you spend the extra $300 on the more expensive MacBook Pro you get the following: - a faster processor (2.53GHz vs. 2.26GHz) - more memory (4GB vs. 2GB) - bigger hard disk (250GB vs. 160GB) These are all desirable things, however you can do the memory and hard disk upgrades yourself (probably for less than $300). It involves removing the bottom panel (something like a dozen screws) and replacing the hardware. I have not done it myself yet, but it does not look too difficult. I plan to wait for SSD and 8GB RAM prices to drop. The processor is about 11.2% faster, and I doubt that can be upgraded later. However, for me 11.2% is not a significant difference. The faster processor also generates more heat and uses more battery power, so it's a trade off. You could also increase performance with a faster hard drive, but that too would eat into the battery life (which is why I am waiting for the solid state drive prices to drop). Snow Leopard promises to run more efficiently than Leopard, so be sure to sign up for the Snow Leopard up-to-date program so you'll get the latest software when it comes out in September (it's a $10 fee). AppleCare is like an extended warranty. I believe you have up to a year after your initial purchase to sign up for it. It gives you an extra 2 years of service coverage and continues your telephone support after the initial 90 days. I am more of a do-it-yourself guy, so I didn't consider it, but it would be nice knowing you are covered. I bought it for my Mac Mini, but I never used it.
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The time capsule has a built in hard drive allong with the Airport so its great for backing up your mac each day so if your hard drive crashes or you lose ur Mac you still have ur data. Great for sharing music and data files on multiple app devices, on top of that you get the feature s of the airport extreme. Better then a external hard drive cause u can connect to it wirelessly.
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The time capsule backups are good for if you know where and when do you want the backup from, keeping them on the time capsule without backuping up is easy too, no harm in it. But not a backup solution
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I am not sure but since everyone I know uses Mac and this external drive and many are on latest version of Mac, I would HIGHLY suspect that it will work just fine. This drive, with Time Machine, totally ROCKS. It is the best investment you could make.
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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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Those are actually a pair of 4GB modules. If you you buy two of them, you would get the 16GB you aiming at. The only downside is that, since mid-2010 iMacs have only 4 memory slots, you'll have to ditch the two 2GB modules that originally came with your machine. You may want to consider keeping the original modules and add only one pair of 4GB modules, to a total of 12GB, if it's not crucial for you to reach 16GB.