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Apple Updates Time Capsule to 1 TB and 2 TB Capacities

mac ath said:
i am so glad i kept waiting and waiting for the 1TB to have a price drop.
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I just bought one today... :) A few weeks ago my 1TB hd crashed due to a firmware bug. Still in repair. So I was considering an SAN solution. Looked at Time Capsule 500GB. But I decided to wait just a bit...well what do you know price drop. Plus I needed to upgrade by wifi 802.11b router to an n, so I'm satisfied.
 
ChrisA said:
One of the largest causes of data loss is theft of the equipment and things like fires. TM is not going to help with those. Other causes are operator error and software failures. Again TM will not help

If you care about the data jst follow a couple rules:
1) Keep the data on at least three different physical media
2) Keep the data in at least two different geographical locations

Youcan count the Time Machine drive is "1" in each of these rules. One is beter than zero but not as good as 3 and 2.

And also, most importantly, The above should be true DURING a backup operation. So if your backup software wipes out the last backup before writing the new one you need to keep four four copies. Same wit off sire rotation, You need enough to do a rotation so that at least one is always off site. You might say "what's that change of a disk failure occurring during the few minutes it takes to run a backup? I'd argue that is the most likely time. If you are a typical move user running a backup is the most stressful thing you do to your disk drives.

Very few people bother with this so.....

I predict that in 100 years there will be almost no 100 year old photos, except for those printed onto photographer by machines at drug stores.
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This is my backup method:

I have an eight core Mac Pro with two internal hard drives and two Time Capsules. I have two UPC 1200 watt UPS boxes supplying power to the system.

Internal Drive One is my primary drive with OS, software and data.
Internal Drive Two is my Time Machine drive for supporting Internal Drive One.

I keep a current SuperDuper image backup on my two Time Capsules. One of the Time Capsules is at my house and one is in my safe deposit box at my bank. At least every two weeks, I create a new SuperDuper image backup on the home Time Capsule and swap it with the one at the bank on my way to work. When I get home from work, with the Time Capsule from the bank, I immediately create a new SuperDuper image backup to match the one I just placed in the safe deposit box at the bank.

It may not be perfect, but it covers most disasters (hdd failure, pc theft, home fire, etc).

Plus I have the benefit of the wi-fi router for my home.
 
I wish they had Firewire 800 on the 1TB and 2TB TimeCapsules... that would make me buy it right now... most HD with such capacity have it.

It would be great to attach my other firewire drives to it, instead of doing it through USB, which is painfully slow for big files: the gigabit connection doesn't seem to be as fast when it comes to transfer data with the drive... plus the ability to daisy-chain them.

Anyone here knows why TimeCapsules don't have firewire???

seems to contradict the fact that Apple stands by Firewire because of its benefits...
 
JUST THINKING out loud,
Is there any way to upgrade your ATV with the hard drive of the TC, cause it be great to have a ATV of 2TB.

Does anybody know wich make/model of hard drive does the TC have ?
 
Other than size whats the diff between my AppleTv and a Time Capsule?

I ask this because i would love to upgrade the drive in my AppleTv and maybe partition it for use as half AppleTv and half TC Backup....
 
Same Back to My Mac problem I bet

I been putting off getting these babies since it limits you to a single mobileme account forthe back to my mac service.

While I could use it, it would be nice if the wife and kids which have their own mobileme accounts could also use the back to my mac feature.

If anyone knows otherwise please let me know so I can go get one.
 
So other than packaging, what is the advantage of this over an Extreme with an external attached to it?
 
Cool, I was in the Apple store near me (UTC in San Diego CA) last Sunday, and one of the Specialists was talking to a guy about how they had no more 500GB Time Capsules, and he suggested that they might be refreshed with a new 2TB model that would cause the 1TB one to drop in price...so he told the customer to wait on buying later in the week. He was right-on!
 
MorphingDragon said:
Does anyone actually care about Time Capsule??? Its too slow IMO to be used for backups.
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I use a USB drive hooked up to my Airport Extreme, so that's probably as "slow" as Time Capsule. It works quite well for our family's backup needs.

Thing is, the initial backup certainly takes a painfully long time to run; but remember that backups after that are incremental, and as such are much smaller and faster.

Note that we're an all-laptop family now, and trigger our backups manually - so our experience may or may not be representative of typical users.
 
Westside guy said:
So does an Extreme with an external drive attached to it - I've been doing that for the past year or so. I don't think Apple ever announced this, but it has worked for a while.
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Yes, I did it too, and it was not reliable. I also was not able to "Enter Time Machine" without disconnecting and attaching it directly to the MBP. When I actually had to restore data, it was a real PITA.

Have you tested a full restore? Because if you haven't then your claim that it works is an empty one.
 
ChrisA said:
Why does speed matter? The backups run in the background. As long as each one is finished before the next one is scheduled to start you are fine. I rarely notice if TM is doing a backup.
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I keep a disk image on my external drive for old archives. The rest of the disk is dedicated to Time Machine. Try doing a regular file transfer to the Time Machine. It's ridiculously slow. It doesn't come close to gigabit ethernet. In fact, it won't even do fast ethernet (100baseT). That's embarrassingly poor performance for NAS.

If you only use your Time Capsule for Time Machine and nothing else... I suppose that's okay. After the first backup, it's only doing small backups. But if you want to use your Time Capsule for anything else... it's essentially useless.

My solution was to buy a 1TB My Book Studio Edition and an Extreme Base Station. So now I have a quad interface external drive (SATA, FW400, FW800, USB2)... and if I want to... I could still use it as a networked drive for Time Machine (or not) or whatever else simply by hooking it up to the Extreme. Much more versatile.
 
My first gen 1TB Time Capsule just died this past Sunday, so I got an Airport Extreme to tied me over thinking that the TCs would be refreshed soon. Talk about perfect timing!! Looks like I will be heading to the Apple Store after work to get the $299 1TB model and returning the AE to Best Buy in the morning. :D

Oilbrnr said:
So other than packaging, what is the advantage of this over an Extreme with an external attached to it?
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One less electrical cord to have on your UPS.
 
Eric S. said:
Has anyone done a full restore from their Time Capsule?
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Yes! I use my 17" MacBoook Pro as my main computer. During this past winter, my slow time, I installed Leopard all the Macs and when Leopard asked if I wanted to restore from a Time Machine Back-Up, I did, and it was a FULL restore from my 1st Gen 500Mb Time Capsule. When I was finished, all 5 Macs had the exact same apps installed and settings. Worked flawlessly for me and took about 40 minutes per machine.
 
1TB version on US store: $299.00
That equals £181.33 at today's rates. Add VAT of 15% and you're at £208.53

Add :apple: tax, and I'd expect it to retail in the UK for £219.99.


But guess what!

The 1Tb version on the UK store is £379.00


WHAT THE HELL?

That's a 172% markup!?!!!
 
I don't think they've got the new ones in the UK store yet. Just 500GB and 1TB ones available. Still, I'd grab one now; given the way the price of the new iMacs rocketed, the prices of the new ones will probably quadruple anyway...
 
Paradigm said:
Yes! I use my 17" MacBoook Pro as my main computer. During this past winter, my slow time, I installed Leopard all the Macs and when Leopard asked if I wanted to restore from a Time Machine Back-Up, I did, and it was a FULL restore from my 1st Gen 500Mb Time Capsule. When I was finished, all 5 Macs had the exact same apps installed and settings. Worked flawlessly for me and took about 40 minutes per machine.
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Nice story. I always like to hear that things work flawlessly. :)
 
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