WD Red Plus
4 TB, 3.5", CMR
Question about WD Red Plus
On the Apple site it says that you can use Time Machine (with macOS Monterey 12) together with a NAS device that supports Time Machine via SMB or AFP. I have tried to read up on the subject, but I am still not clear whether the WD Red Plus (e.g. "2TB, 3.5", CMR) can be used for a Time Machine backup. Does this hard drive now support SMB or AFP? I hope someone can help me with this. Thank you and greetings.
Helpful answer
Hoi - The hard disk supports any file system (be it SMB, AFP, EXT1234x, ZFS etc etc) - the NAS specifies which file system is (or can be) written. The NAS has - like any other system, e.g. like your PC or your MAC - an operating system installed (otherwise we could hardly communicate here together in text messages) and this operating system can read file systems...
A NAS does nothing else, but then additionally makes the disk space available to other systems - for whatever - e.g. for Time Machine.
Thus: YES, you can use the hard disk for TM - a NAS for this is quite practical, 2TB will not be enough for you over time, 2 hard disks that mirror each other make sense...
If you have more questions: fire away, I'll try to answer them for you - LG
nothing to add, "Sean"