Nor do most USB drives plugged into routers work very well. Again up to you.Ĭheap end NAS tend not to work very well as Time Machine backups. I prefer to spend a bit more and buy faster enterprise type drives. if you buy the Synology make sure you buy drives that are on its compatible list. But Synology do a good job of storing music and photos and movies. But of course that is entirely up to you. I think you might find the best way to justify the price is using it as file and media server. Once you have the Synology NAS in your network.
#Alternatives to time machine for mac mac os
being deeply built into the Mac OS but if you have not seen the dreaded TM shat in its nest and now needs to start all over again you will. I run both Carbon Copy Cloner and Time Machine. if you find 4TB is a good size go for it. particularly as price effectively goes down per TB as the size goes up. but you are really better spending a bit more on the larger drives. Time Machine has just not been particularly reliable on network drives. Since High Sierra in particular but it applies back much further. IMHO you will do a lot better using at least 2 backups of the Mac.
Since Apple began introducing a new OS version every 12months and some massive updates for even the point revisions. Has anyone had good experience with that? Any other similar alternative out there that folks would recommend? One option that I've found is Buffalo LinkStation 210 2TB Private Cloud Storage NAS with Hard Drives Included I also don't want to play a regular monthly/annual fee for an online backup system (carbonite, etc).
It's also important that it happens automatically in the background because, we'll just forget to do the backups if it isn't automatic. I know that just plugging in USB drives to each computer and backing up automatically would accomplish this, but I want a backup drive that is located in a different room of the house and I have a home network set up to do this. The size of the backup files would be less than 1 tb total.
#Alternatives to time machine for mac windows 10
I'm specifically looking for a NAS backup solution that will allow me to use Time Machine on a Mac and the Windows 10 automatic backup system for a PC. So, I'm looking for recommendations for an alternative. It won't do a secure erase and basically has stopped working. Thanks to troubleshooting help on this forum, I've come to the conclusion that my Time Capsule is ready for retirement.