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Bought a Time Capsule today...first impressions

jaw04005 said:
And void your warranty, and good luck getting it back together.
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As long as you have some experience opening computers and putting them together, this will be easy - if you don't, i'd avoid it.
jaw04005 said:
AppleCare said there weren't any support options available for Time Capsule (you can't even run Disk Utility on it to repair simple disk or permission errors, etc).

AppleCare's only answer was to replace the entire unit. They don't offer any type of attempt at recovery.
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That's the same thing they do if your macbook drive dies, hence it being a BACKUP. The whole point of a backup is that it's an Nth copy of your data. So in the tragic case that one drive dies, you just replace, re-replicate, and move on. If your macbook hard drive dies, apple won't offer any recovery service on that drive....
 
Wait, so you can't hook up a TC directly to your PC? I'm currently using a AEBS+ 1.5TB HDD, and wanted to sell or trade them for a time capsule, and swap drives so I can keep the large capacity. I was hoping I could save an outlet, have less gear lying around, and have it match my iPod HiFi. While I like being able to wirelessly backup and have me and friends access it wirelessly, I also enjoy being able to hook it up via firewire if I need to transfer data quicker.
 
I have been flip flopping on whether to get one of these things for weeks. I like the wireless aspect of it and our apartment could use a better router (currently we are using a Belkin N). I even have seen them for sale on the refurb store for 180. O well...is it Friday yet?
 
Macinposh said:
Did a backup yesterday after few months hiatus : it was 165Gb. It took 13 hours with a ethernet cable connected to the TC. Riiiight.
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Dude, do you know how much 165GB is??? It is more than FIVE MILLION TIMES the total memory of my first computer! It is more than ONE MILLION TIMES the capacity of my first floppy disk drive. It is nearly FIVE THOUSAND TIMES the capacity of my first hard disk drive. Written out, it is 177,167,400,960 Bytes. And each of those Bytes is made up of a whole bunch more little 1's and 0's, and every one of those have to magically jump between your computer and your Time Capsule -- with 100% accuracy!

I mean, I know digital communications technology is evolving at an incredibly rapid pace, but c'mon.... you're getting 3,786,628 Bytes/sec throughput on average. That's pretty incredible by any standard. Cut your poor Time Capsule some slack, it's working pretty damn hard for you! :apple:
 
eRondeau said:
Dude, do you know how much 165GB is??? It is more than FIVE MILLION TIMES the total memory of my first computer! It is more than ONE MILLION TIMES the capacity of my first floppy disk drive. It is nearly FIVE THOUSAND TIMES the capacity of my first hard disk drive. Written out, it is 177,167,400,960 Bytes. And each of those Bytes is made up of a whole bunch more little 1's and 0's, and every one of those have to magically jump between your computer and your Time Capsule -- with 100% accuracy!

I mean, I know digital communications technology is evolving at an incredibly rapid pace, but c'mon.... you're getting 3,786,628 Bytes/sec throughput on average. That's pretty incredible by any standard. Cut your poor Time Capsule some slack, it's working pretty damn hard for you! :apple:
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Wait a second, is this my Time Capsule speaking. How did you get access to MacRumors. :p
 
How can I tell if my Time Capsule is transmitting an N signal. I have it set up in bridge mode with my modem/wifi surfboard that transmits up to g. I want my MBP to go through N and iPhone etc to use G.
 
I just set up my Time Capsule yesterday and it is amazing as a router.

I have two Newbie Questions:

Can I also use it as an external drive to store data / songs?

What will happen when I upgrade to Snow Leopard when it arrives? Will this not be compatible?
 
titaniummd said:
I just set up my Time Capsule yesterday and it is amazing as a router.

I have two Newbie Questions:

Can I also use it as an external drive to store data / songs?

What will happen when I upgrade to Snow Leopard when it arrives? Will this not be compatible?
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Ofcourse it'll still be capable with snow leopard, and yes you can use it like any other harddrive to store your files, the only difference is that you can do it all wirelessly!
 
How can I tell if my Time Capsule is transmitting an N signal. I have it set up in bridge mode with my modem/wifi surfboard that transmits up to g. I want my MBP to go through N and iPhone etc to use G.
 
I had the 500gb TC and I decided to crack it open and drop a 2TB drive in it. Now I have 1.5TB of extra space for only $95. It works great with no issues.:p
 
Andrew Henry said:
Ofcourse it'll still be capable with snow leopard, and yes you can use it like any other harddrive to store your files, the only difference is that you can do it all wirelessly!
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Thanks for the response.

How do I store files wirelessly? I just got this drive and I tried to drag files to it but I got that "No Symbol".

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Oops! Never mind, I just figured it out. That feature is AMAZING! Wow!
 
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