Apple's new Time Capsule 1tb airport base station - Scratch disk?

samrwamr

samrwamr

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So Apple released a new wireless Airport Extreme base station today that features 500GB or 1TB storage. The main purpose of the thing is to use for backup with their "Time Machine" app. You can backup your computer wirelessly. (It's also a fully functioning LAN base station/router) The thing is pretty sweet... only $499 for the 1TB model.

My question is whether or not it could function as a scratch disk for final cut. I really don't care about doing it wirelessly... I know that would be way too slow anyways, but I guess my ultimate question is this:
Would connecting to a hard drive with CAT5 or CAT6 to a gigabit ethernet port be as fast or faster than a Firewire 800 drive? And would that be practical at all?

The drive(s) in the base station aren't too shaby.... 7200RPM.

Here's a link: http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/

I'm so speed-hungry it's not even funny....
 
Not fast enough except for maybe standard def DV footage - network is slow compared to f800 or esata. you can buy external 1tb drives for much less. Gigabit ethernet wireless N routers are cheeper as well. Computer to computer via gigabit ethernet is however useable. This is really meant for backups.
 
By the numbers it seems like it might be as fast...

I just think it'd be convenient to have everything (wireless, harddrive, printer) all on the same device.
 
It's a backup drive. They can get away with it by setting it to do all the file transfers in the background, but if you're dependant on how fast you can pull the data up, you'd be mighty frustrated in a hurry.
 
Blaine said:
It's not a printer. You have to connect a printer to it, then use it as a network printer.
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Yes i understand that... i just meant having everything connected to the same device.

i knew this was a long shot to begin with... i guess i was just hopped up on the "new apple product" high. thanks for confirming my suspicions everyone
 
yeah, if this is anything like the speed i get when i transfer stuff to the drive connected to my aiport extreme, it is definitely not fast enough for anything video. pretty much unreliable too. my transfers fail all the time. i know it's a different device but i assume it's just wifi, same as a.p. xt.
 
Yeah it is, but I would connect it through an ethernet cord. I know that wireless would be way too slow
 
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