This seems like a solid consumer friendly product.
Good price point, several clear use cases, no frills, and will meet the needs of like 80% of people.
It also makes it very easy when my in laws ask what computer to get. Ideally I could point them to Linux. It’s still relatively hard to wreck a macOS install, so this is a safe bet where they can run an office suit a d show slideshows of their trip photos.
If only I could trust Time Machine for backups for family but it always breaks, and there’s no obvious time capsule like hardware for sale.
What happens with time machine? I seem to only remember people having issues because they’d unplug the drive and leave it unplugged for years forgetting about it. Has it gone down hill a lot?
Eventually it just stops writing successfully and needs to be resynced, but also it can get corrupted and you have to delete everything to continue writing.
This seems like a solid consumer friendly product.
Good price point, several clear use cases, no frills, and will meet the needs of like 80% of people.
It also makes it very easy when my in laws ask what computer to get. Ideally I could point them to Linux. It’s still relatively hard to wreck a macOS install, so this is a safe bet where they can run an office suit a d show slideshows of their trip photos.
If only I could trust Time Machine for backups for family but it always breaks, and there’s no obvious time capsule like hardware for sale.
What happens with time machine? I seem to only remember people having issues because they’d unplug the drive and leave it unplugged for years forgetting about it. Has it gone down hill a lot?
Eventually it just stops writing successfully and needs to be resynced, but also it can get corrupted and you have to delete everything to continue writing.
It has been unreliable for a long time.
That describes my experience