Pre Building questions

[YossarianKen44]

I have been a long time mac user and I'm still running my early 2009 MacPro on El Capitan. I have been holding out for a suitable scale-able replacement from Apple but I am just tired now and think I'm going hackintosh route. The costs have gotten out of hand in my opinion too.

I have always migrated parts (hard drives mostly) from one machine to the next. I do have couple of questions before I start a build and post a confirmation of suitable parts.

Are Hackintoshes able to use Timemachine for backups? I haven't found any articles or questions really that answer this.

If Timemachine is available can I migrate my user accounts and data using it? I currently backup all my stuff to a Drobo unit.

Are there any issues with using a Drobo with a Hackintosh?

I have a lot of USB devices (Contour Shuttle Pro, Wacom Tablet, Drobo units, etc.) I have currently two PCI cards in my MacPro to handle this stuff. One is a four port USB2 and the other a four port USB3. These things couldn't be put into a Hackintosh could they or would I have to get new cards?

Motherboards are my next big set of questions but I hope to address these concerns first.

Thanks for any help.

 

[dfritchie]

I back up my hack with time machine, have since 2016 when I built it using a WD USB3 drive.
Don't have Drobo, but most all external drives work.
If your MB you choose has pci slots your cards will most likely work in the hack also.

 

[YossarianKen44]

Thanks for the info dfritchie. I really appreciate it.

I'm looking at getting the GIGABYTE Z390 DESIGNARE motherboard and putting a Core i7-9700K 3.6Ghz into it. Sure I would like to go i9 but I can save some money and anything newer would be much better than I have today.

The forums here have been great in reading up on the Designare but I have some confusion that maybe should be addressed under that discussion. Most of the builds discussed state that the WiFi/Blutooth of the board will not work so a PCI card with an adapter is needed. This seems a bit more solid than the advise in this youtube video

I'm trying to get clarification.