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For a decade, Apple sold millions of Time Capsules, simple appliances combining a Wi-Fi router with network storage. Popular with families and small businesses, they quietly kept Time Machine backups for several Macs. Now we have better Wi-Fi, and their hard drives are reaching end of life, what should you replace yours with? What’s the best way to store backups, shared photos, and documents on your network?
These are among the many roles that can be served by Network Attached Storage (NAS). Here, we look at five leading NAS systems aimed at homes and smaller businesses, with the primary role of storing Time Machine backups for several Macs. They range from systems similar to Time Capsules without the Wi-Fi, to those
