Thinking about getting a Time Capsule

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Thinking about getting a time capsule drive from Apple and was wondering on alternatives.

Something easy to use and navigate, something that just shows up as an external drive and just works. If I want to put anything on it, so be it.

Currently I have a Synology unit, and it is very robust (I think), but hard to use. Have to download special software and then go through that portal to use the drive.

I just want something that is going to show up on my computer as a networked drive.

Two Apple laptops and one gaming Windows computer (wired). Will be hooking up to it.

Suggestions?
 
While I don't have any specific alternative in terms of Network Attached Storage to offer you; I will offer my personal experience with a few Time Capsules.

We have deployed 3 here at work, and we have grown to hate them all. My Supervisor who is as close to a Mac "Fanboy" as you can get even hates them. About 2 months after purchasing our first one the wireless portion started flaking out on us. It would randomly turn *off*, or would simply stop handing out IP address, or it would decide to stop broadcasting so no one could connect.

About 5 months later, the actual backup portion of the time capsule became corrupt and subsequently my Supervisor lost his backup, and to this day 7 months later since purchasing it, the time capsule no longer can do backups. They always fail somewhere in the 90% range.

Thinking this was just bad luck, we went ahead and bought 2 more (seeing as last years budget is now over and we had money to spend). After deploying them, they are once again crapping out on us, providing flaky wireless.

All in all, our personal experience with the Time Capsule both for Wireless and Backup has not gone well. I am 100% sure there are customers in the world, and right here on [H] that have had a wonderful experience. I just thought I'd share a tiny part of ours. Would we buy another time capsule? Never.

If I were you, I would just look into a cheap External Enclosure with an ethernet port, and stick a drive in it. Instant NAS -- Minus the WEB Frontends etc etc.
 
In that case, I am looking for a easy to use network storage device. So I can easily connect via Mac or PC, wireless, and thats about it.

No need to run Bit Torrent in the background, just something that is relatively effortless and stable.
 
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