8TB SSD Time Capsule

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After not actually backing up any of my Macs to my Time Capsule since ~2013, I finally opened it up, swapped out the hard drive for a spare 8TB Samsung 870 QVO, and am now marvelling at how completely silent it is 🥲

I've got it connected via Ethernet for this initial backup of ~5.5TB but I look forward to daily incremental backups, to not losing several months of work like I did already twice this year 🥴

 

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to not losing several months of work like I did already twice this year

Twice? It took you losing months of work twice to refurb your Time Capsule? Yeesh. What file system does TC use for Time Machine backups? Probably HFS+. How hot does the Samsung 870 get? Does the TC include a fan? Can’t recall.

 

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Twice? It took you losing months of work twice to refurb your Time Capsule? Yeesh. What file system does TC use for Time Machine backups? Probably HFS+. How hot does the Samsung 870 get? Does the TC include a fan? Can’t recall.

Well, the "work" I lost was just the original recordings, Audacity projects, and multi-layer cover images for my podcast, but the exported MP3s and JPEGs were all already published, so though frustrating it wasn't catastrophic. But to your point, it took me a while to learn my lesson, and then also deciding to "downgrade" from using the 8TB SSD as my home directory and go back to using the older 4TB one, that's what freed up the 8TB one for use in the Time Capsule.

And yep, the Time Capsule uses HFS+, I have no idea how hot the 870 QVO gets but presumably not very since there's ludicrous amounts of room in there now, and there is a fan too, I attached its temperature sensor to the SSD but have yet to hear it spin up.