Can Time Capsule Do This...

I plan to buy the 1TB model IF it can do these two things:
1. Back up 4 different Macs without any partitioning (two wired and two wireless).
2. Serve as an ordinary network drive. In other words, I can see it on my desktop when mounted or mount it from the Finder sidebar and drag and drop files onto it from remote machines on my network. My concern here is that maybe it is ONLY a backup drive for Time Machine and you can't do anything else with it.
I would be grateful if someone that has the device or is sure they know the answers could tell me.
Thanks much.

I agree with Henry. The partitioning might seem to be an issue to some. However, it's possible to setup user accounts for the TC's internal HDD using the AirPort Utility. This provides "shares" or "folders" for each unique user account along with their passwords. Each user can only access their "share" on the TC's internal HDD and in general cannot see other user "shares". I'm doing this in my home environment and have "shares" for my wife and myself. She can't see my stuff nor can she mount my "share" and the opposite is also true (apart from my Admin privileges ).
If you're willing to disassemble the TC and remove the HDD and place it into an enclosure that's attached to a Mac presumably you could use Disk Utility to partition the TC's HDD. However, when it's placed back into the TC things may or may not work as you expect. It will be of interest to see if this is possible later on when some brave soul tries it.

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