Time Capsule with ext HDD seems too slow for ethernet big file transfer

With new Snow Leopard on a Mac Mini, I have a wired Time Capsule with an external WD USB 2.0 HDD added. While moving files over 802.11N files seem to work fine, a full wired Ethernet connection seems to send the files too fast for the WD external drive to keep up. I get only the first 50Mb before the transfer gets corrupted. Isn't there a handshake that limits the file transmission to allow for the USB drive to stay ahead?
Has anyone else seen this? Is there a remedy?
Thanks
Bill H.

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Time Machine backed up my internal hard drive on my Mac just fine, but Time Machine refuses to see the external Lacie drive so it cannot back it up.
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1. If I go to Time machine preferences and click Options there are no volumes or folders listed as Do Not Back Up. nothing is there.
2. If I click Change Disk the name I gave my Time Capsule is listed as it should be but the LaCie drive is listed also as if it were possible for me to back up to that also. The LaCie's name is there with the name of the Time Capsule in parenthesis. Isn't that odd?
3. When I select the LaCie icon on my desktop and select Get Info in the Sharing & Permissions section it says, "You have custom access" below it says
Name Privilege
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I am new to Mac in general and this permission and sharing thing is still a bit mysterious to me so I don't know if these sharing & permission settings are usual or weird and could be contributing to why the back up of the LaCie drive is not happening.
This is the final hurdle I have in absolutely convincing my small but vocal office that switching to Macs all around was a great idea.
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If you are copying any important information to the TC directly (example: iTunes library, iPhoto library, Movies), please make sure that you implement a backup solution for these files. The Airport Utility has an Archive function which will backup the entire TC to an externally attached USB drive.
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Hi all - Windows user new to Mac. The network set up okay, two windows pc's wired and two new Mac's wireless, one laptop and one iMac. If I attach a hard drive to the iMac directly, the machine sees it and I can access the data. I want it on the Time Capsule. When I attach it there, double click on the time capsule in the left pane, the disk shows in the right pane in blue. When I double click it, it says it didn't mount. What are the steps to attach a disk to the usb port on the time capsule and get it accessible from the other computers? I've tried reading this forum, got as far as I did thanks to you all. The documentation is not very good, as far as I can tell. Thank you for any help.
Mike

Mike,
You will need to use Disk Utility to do this. Move the HD from the TCs USB port to one the USB ports on your Mac. Reformat it, then move it back. Disk Utility is found in MacintoshHD/Applications/Utilities. Here is my procedure for preparing disks...
*_How Should a Time Machine Hard Disk be Prepared?_*
For Time Machine to work properly, the hard disk must be formatted “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” and its’ Partition Scheme should be either GUID or Apple Partition Map.
Time Machine is incompatible with disks partitioned as Master Boot Record (MBR). Unfortunately, this describes nearly every hard drive you can buy because MBR is a Windows partition scheme. (Naturally, this DOES NOT apply to Apples’ Time Capsule.)
For some, Time Machine begins to perform as expected with a new external hard disk. But then the initial full backup or subsequent incremental backups fail. The user only later discovers the hard disk was still partitioned as Master Boot Record (MBR).
One article on Time Machine made this observation: “Virtually everybody will have to open Disk Utility and repartition the disk as APM or GUID. It doesn't really matter which one because the Time Machine disk will not be bootable anyway. APM allows a disk to boot a PowerPC, GUID allows the disk to boot an Intel processor but both are easily digestible by Time Machine on either kind of processor.” [http://www.girr.org/mac_stuff/backups.html]
It’s been recommended by many here that your reserve +at least+ double the size of your primary hard disk, that way Time Machine backups have room to grow as the size of your data grows. Additionally, the more space you give Time Machine the more history it can preserve. The less space you reserve for Time Machine the sooner older backups & deleted items will disappear.
One poster recommended this regarding multiple partitions: “If you do create multiple partitions (half and half would be a good place to start), make sure you use the first partition for Time Machine, and the second for your own stuff (the first one will be on top in the graphical representation shown in Disk Utility; you'll understand when you see the partition tab). This way, you can expand the Time Machine volume at any later time by deleting the second partition. Disk Utility allows this dynamic re-sizing of volumes, but volumes can only be expanded toward the end of the drive, when a volume that comes after is deleted to create the room.” [http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1712437&tstart=0]
Procedure
Connect the hard disk you wish to use for Time Machine backups.
Launch Disk Utility.
It will appear twice in the pane on the left. (Make sure you recognize that it is different from the 2 icons that represent your Macs' internal drive.) The upper entry represent the device as a whole, including the controller inside. The lower entry represents the hard disk contained within the device.
Click on the upper icon of the external hard disk.
Select the "Partition" tab.
For "Volume Scheme" choose "1 partition". (Choose 2 partitions if you intend on storing other data on the disk besides your Time Machine backups. Ensure that the two partitions have different names.)
Name the disk.
Format should be "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)".
Click "Options".
Select either GUID or Apple Partition Map. (See above for significance)
Click "OK".
Click "Apply". Then click “Partition”.
Once the external hard disk is repartitioned, select it again in Time Machine preferences and use it for your backups. If you chose to create 2 partitions, then select the first partition for Time Machine backups, and the second for additional files/folders.
Let us know if this was helpful.
Cheers!

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I recently bought a 500 mb TC, so am somewhat a newbie to it, and am already wondering if I should have bought the 1 Terrabyte model.
The 500GB model is a much better value. As you've stated, you could add more HDD capacity when the prices come down.
I am trying to figure out exactly how I can use the USB HD facility on the TC. Is the point of this that I can achieve extra Time Machine/Time Capsule backup-capacity automatically, i.e. if space runs out on the TC it will go to the USB HD automatically?
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Are there other ways of using the attached USB HD? For example to mirror the TC, for an extra level of safety.
Yes, via AirPort Utility -> Disks -> Archive. It clones the internal HDD. It is NOT incremental.
Or could I choose within Time Machine to backup only to this USB drive?
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Or could you use it as an additional Hard Drive that is nothing to do with Time Machine backups at all, just an extra HD accessed wirelessly?
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Could you even add extra Hard Drives to Time Capsule with some sort of USB hub or in a chain.
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