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    Add a server to your home

    Mar 30, 2017 6 minutes

    REQUIRES

    macOS Server

    YOU WILL LEARN

    How to configure macOS Server and its Time Machine and Caching features

    IT WILL TAKE

    1 hour

    Apple’s commitment to its networking hardware seems to be at a halt, to the point that its AirPort team was recently rumored to have been disbanded. With the future of AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule routers apparently under threat, you may be looking elsewhere for a device to centralize Time Machine backups for all the Macs in your home. Many third-party network drives come with Time Machine support, but you could press an older Mac into service instead.

    The advantages of this are numerous. Firstly, you can plug in/swap out external storage. Secondly, a USB drive represents much better value than a Time Capsule. Thirdly, external drives perform much quicker when plugged directly into a Mac (particularly if it has USB 3.0) rather than going through the slower USB 2.0 port on an AirPort Extreme or Time Capsule.

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