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Time Capsule - 500 GB

Time Capsule - 500 GB

Apple - MB276LL/A
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Apple Time Capsule MB276LL/A 802.11n 500 GB Network Backup Hard Drive
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Time Capsule (500 GB), 500 GB for Time Machine Backup, 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless Router, Gigabit Ethernet, USB Printer and Hard Drive Sharing
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Time Capsule - 500 GB
Wireless backup for Mac OS X Leopard Automatic backup with TimeMachine TimeCapsule works automatically
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Time Capsule - 500 GB
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Apple Time Capsule 500GB External Wireless Network Hard Drive
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Time Capsule - 500 GB
have been using the 1T version for awhile with the firmware update with both Leopard & Vista, here is my impression:

(+) cool design. no power brick. run silent.
(+) works well with Time Machine, wireless data streaming with "n", network printer.
(+) works very well with VISTA.


(-) can run very hot, especially if copying files & running continuously. gets hotter the longer it runs.
(-) TM back up is slow both wire & wireless. first back-up of 30G took literally more than one day. took it to Genius bar --> nothing wrong . . . . incremental back-ups are faster.
(-) TM back-up utility is questionable because: (1) slower than normal copying, (2) takes up more space, (3) who needs hourly back-up, (4) no catastrophic corruption with Leopard (or Vista for that matter).
(-) throttles internet speed.

*** because of the (-) and my network-enabled printer, i now mainly use it as a wireless back-up hard drive and for streaming video/music and only turn it on when need to.
i used Winclone &
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  14 review(s)  |  0 comment(s)  |  9 price(s)  |  113 days ago at 
Time Capsule - 500 GB
I tried this Time Capsule out for about 25 days and, in that time, observed several key flaws that ultimately led to my return of the item. While the routing functions worked flawlessly for my application, the internal drive did not. Using a gigabit connection, the maximum throughput to and from the drive was dismal at around 8MB/s and 15MB/s, respectively. More importantly, as a primary backup device, the drive became corrupted on two occasions requiring a reformat each time. As the drive cannot be connected directly to my MacBook by USB, I could not use disk-utility to repair the drive and potentially save the data on it. An Airport Extreme with a 500GB USB drive attached was able to attain a throughput of 10MB/s and 19MB/s, respectively.
  14 review(s)  |  0 comment(s)  |  9 price(s)  |  153 days ago at 
Time Capsule - 500 GB
First, I'm a hardcore Apple fan and have used Macs from the LC days (last century!), so don't get me wrong on this.

I regret my purchase of Time Capsule. Seriously. And if I had a way of returning it (I'm 12,563 km away from the NY Apple Store where it was purchased), I would.

The TC's size is LARGE, larger than the footprint (Al base) of an iMac 20", and it's heavy. Given today's HD form factors, I was expecting something much smaller. In fact, look at how Apple has shrunk the new Aiport Extreme base stations.

Setup with Leopard and Time Machine isn't difficult, but it's not the fabled Apple kind of easy. WiFi and internet were up after a couple of attempts and one hardware reset. The initial backup... ah! there lies the rub...

I did it the logical ethernet way (Apple should have warned newbies about this), and believe me, I would not like to repeat the process. 1st attempt: 24 hours+, and a defective backup (for only 80 GB!); 2nd attempt (after firmware upgrade, sw update), 6 hours,
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  14 review(s)  |  0 comment(s)  |  9 price(s)  |  185 days ago at 

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