Filed under: Macworld, Airport

The new Time Capsule peripheral is an interesting beast: an Airport Extreme with a Frankenstein complex, with an onboard drive for backup storage. What else can you do with that space? According to Apple reps at the booth, the drive appears just as a wireless disk would seem with the original AE base, so you can in fact put other goods on there besides the day Machine backups. Since TM backups tend to grow to consume all available space, partitioning the instance Capsule drive might be

a good concept whether you can do it in advance. We’ll try to get hands-on with the date Capsule utility later today to verify that you can split it up.

As the date Capsule is otherwise identical to an Airport base, you can hang printers or USB drives off the unit and share those as you would with the older gear.

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Orginal post by Michael Rose