Can some user here please verify if I can use the time capsule with any sata drive with no limitations, I was thinking of purchasing the 500 gb one and sticking in one of those 2tb babies from wd out in a few weeks or so. Is this possible? Does apple cripple this in some way I am not aware of?
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Time capsule with ANY drive?
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My bet is that it would work just fine, sata implementation seems to be standard in the TC. Searched around for any posts on people trying the 1.5tb drives that have been out a while but came up with nothing. I suppose it's a gamble, but worse case you could hang it off the USB port on the TC and utilize it that way.
Have run an old Maxtor in a ICEBOX enclosure now have a bigger WD in it. Both worked fine. Have also tried a WD 500Gb mybook, also works fine. You should not have any problems with the WD drives.
Hey guys thanks a lot for the replies! I ll probably go ahead and get the 500 gb tc, and try my luck out with the 2.0tb when it comes out, only problem it seems that it won't be one of the famed "server grade" hitachi hard disks apple uses
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Cool... post back to this thread your results... swapping out the drives is not difficult at all.
Good luck!
Good luck!
Why do you think I would be better off thus? Does time machine work with an external usb enclosure? The reason I am going with the tc is because I want to avoid clutter and I want a simple solution such as the tc that will be (relatively) power efficient and silent, because most enclosures have bad quality noisy fans.
That's exactly the reason I went with TC (actually replaced my AE + External HD solution)... less clutter, no power supply brick hanging around (make that 2 bricks with the external USB drive). Definitely makes for a cleaner solution.
So have you done it yet and does it work? I'm interested in doing the same myself but I've yet to find one discussion where someone has tried the 2TB in Time Capsule to verify that it works.