Faliuers

March 29, 2011
In October 2009, several news sites reported that many Time Capsules were failing after 18 months.[11] Users have alleged that this is due to a design failure in the power supplies.[12]Apple has confirmed that certain Time Capsules sold between February 2008 and June 2008 do not power on or may unexpectedly turn off and has offered free repair or replacement to affected units.[13]

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Hardrive

March 29, 2011

The hard drive typically found in a Time Capsule is the Hitachi Deskstar, which is sold by Hitachi as a consumer-grade product (the Hitachi Ultrastar is the enterprise version).[7] Apple labeled the drive as a server-grade drive in promotional material for Time Capsule, and also uses this type of drive in the Xserve servers. Apple states that the Hitachi Deskstar meets or exceeds the 1 million hour mean time between failures (MTBF) recommendation for server-grade hard drives.[8]

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Using Time Capsule as a backup device

March 29, 2011
One of the key features of Time Capsule is the ability to back up a system and files wirelessly and automatically, which eliminates the need for a separate external drive to be attached. This feature requires OS X 10.5.2 Leopard or greater as it is this OS release that enables backup over a network. The backup software is Apple's Time Machine, which regularly makes images of the files that are being changed every hour, condensing backup images as they become older, to save space. Even when us...
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Models by SKU

March 27, 2011

Apple Time Capsule SKU are constructed with the 5 first characters identifying the product version and the remaining ones indicating the localization (accessories and power supply vary according to the country the Time Capsule is sold in).

G1 (early 2008)

  • MB276LL/A 500GB Time Capsule
  • MB277LL/A 1TB Time Capsule

G2 (early 2009)

  • MB764LL/A 500GB Time Capsule
  • MB765LL/A 1TB Time Capsule

G3 (mid 2009)

  • MB765LL/A or MB765X/A 1TB Time Capsule
  • MB996LL/A or MB996X/A 2TB Time Capsule

G4 (circa 2010)

  • MC343LL/A 1TB Ti...
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Comparison to the Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station

March 27, 2011
The Time Capsule is a fully featured 802.11n Wi-Fi base station[5] and supports all the same features as the AirPort Extreme Base Station, featuring the same set of ports on the back. Modifications upon the design of the AirPort Extreme Base Station include the addition of the storage hard drive for backups and NAS type file storage which will be available to both Macs and PCs (after installing supplied drivers) on the network. The Time Capsule measures 7.7 inches or 19.7 cm square and 1.4 in...
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Time Capsule

March 27, 2011

The Time Capsule is a wireless network-attached storage device combined with a wireless residential gateway router made by Apple Inc. It is described as a "Backup Appliance", designed to work in tandem with the Time Machine backup utility, introduced in Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard".[1]

The device includes a full AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n wireless (now with Dual Band Support), an Ethernet WAN port, three Ethernet LAN ports, and one USB port. There is also a "Server grade" hard drive ...
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