How can I use the free space of my Time Capsule as wireless HD ?

Hi,
Just set up a 2T Time Capsule and use it as Time Machine for my IMac and my MacBook.
How can I use the 1 Tb free space to ave data available from all my devices ?
Tks

thierry118 wrote:
Just set up a 2T Time Capsule and use it as Time Machine for my IMac and my MacBook.
How can I use the 1 Tb free space to ave data available from all my devices ?
Although it seems like you have a lot of extra space, Time Machine keeps versions, and if you want to take full advantage of the version history you should not worry about "extra space" because it will get used to provide safer coverage for the two Macs. If you had a Time Machine disk that fit your two Macs' hard drives perfectly, you would have no room for the version history, only room for the one most recent copy of each file. This can be a problem if you discover corruption that happened a while ago and cannot go back far enough in time to find an uncorrupted file.
Therefore it's better to not try and use up the "extra space" and let it be used for a longer, safer version history for your backups.
But like you, I want to use my Time Machine for additional network storage. So I plugged a cheap, compact hard drive into the Time Capsule USB port, and that shows up in File Sharing too. There is no need to buy anything fancier since it will be limited by both network speed and USB 2.0 anyway.

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