Hi folks,
I have a Time Capsule - It's an old 4th generation that I bought in 2011 and it's always worked relatively well. A few years ago, I took it apart because it seemed a bit slow and my original plan was to replace the drive but I ran a full scan and a zero over it, put it back together and it was back to normal.
I noticed a couple of weeks ago that although my M1 MBA was still managing to back up successfully to it, my 2017 iMac was failing. I've spent some time on this today and have noticed that in Airport Utility, the capsule keeps changing from having a green dot (healthy) to an orange triangle with an exclamation mark which means it's going offline.
The built in WiFi is still working and I can still ping it while this is happening, it never does drop completely offline. I still have a couple of ethernet devices plugged into it and it's working perfectly as a small switch.
Has anyone experienced this? I wonder if it's the drive finally on the way out but it's not making the typical drive failure clicks and I can't hear the drive spinning up and down. Having said that, after over ten years of almost continuous use, that wouldn't surprise me too much.
I've got some 2 and 3Tb drives with just a few years run time, can I throw any drive in there as a replacement?
(note, I do have other backups, the Time Capsule is just one part of my backup regime)
Thanks.
I have a Time Capsule - It's an old 4th generation that I bought in 2011 and it's always worked relatively well. A few years ago, I took it apart because it seemed a bit slow and my original plan was to replace the drive but I ran a full scan and a zero over it, put it back together and it was back to normal.
I noticed a couple of weeks ago that although my M1 MBA was still managing to back up successfully to it, my 2017 iMac was failing. I've spent some time on this today and have noticed that in Airport Utility, the capsule keeps changing from having a green dot (healthy) to an orange triangle with an exclamation mark which means it's going offline.
The built in WiFi is still working and I can still ping it while this is happening, it never does drop completely offline. I still have a couple of ethernet devices plugged into it and it's working perfectly as a small switch.
Has anyone experienced this? I wonder if it's the drive finally on the way out but it's not making the typical drive failure clicks and I can't hear the drive spinning up and down. Having said that, after over ten years of almost continuous use, that wouldn't surprise me too much.
I've got some 2 and 3Tb drives with just a few years run time, can I throw any drive in there as a replacement?
(note, I do have other backups, the Time Capsule is just one part of my backup regime)
Thanks.
