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Time Capsule

Amblinman said:
I don't know why folks are constantly trying to show me supposedly cheaper alternatives that turn out to be more time consuming than just buying Apple stuff. Like the previous poster, I'm interested in Time Machine because it's one-stop shopping.
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Some people are interested in the convenience of one-stop shopping but others aren't. Maybe people are on a budget and $110 is a lot of money for them. Maybe they want the flexibility of moving a drive around and leaving the router alone. Bigger, faster and cheaper drives come out all the time, so you could swap out an external drive a heck of a lot easier than hacking a TC and invalidating a warranty. Maybe they already own an AEBS and can stick a TB drive on it for less than half the price of one of these.

There are a lot of reasons why.
 
richpjr said:
Some people are interested in the convenience of one-stop shopping but others aren't. Maybe people are on a budget and $110 is a lot of money for them. Maybe they want the flexibility of moving a drive around and leaving the router alone. Bigger, faster and cheaper drives come out all the time, so you could swap out an external drive a heck of a lot easier than hacking a TC and invalidating a warranty. Maybe they already own an AEBS and can stick a TB drive on it for less than half the price of one of these.

There are a lot of reasons why.
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Don't forget that cheaper is exactly that, cheaper. Apple using a Server Grade hard drive adds more stability. So if you are doing a cost/benefits make sure that you factor in a more expensive 1TB hard drive for your custom solution.

I know most of those WD solutions are not server-grade hard drives, just consumer grade and not meant to run for much longer. And typically have a shorter warranty period since you brought warranty into question.

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006296.html
 
Amblinman said:
I don't know why folks are constantly trying to show me supposedly cheaper alternatives that turn out to be more time consuming than just buying Apple stuff. Like the previous poster, I'm interested in Time Machine because it's one-stop shopping.
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I'd go for something that will "just work". Time Capsule is a choice. A plain external hard drive with USB connector, like the Western Digital "Books", they are a lot less convenient, but they also just work. (I use one; once a week I plugin my MacBook, that's it. I only have weekly backups though).

In that case, there is a huge price difference, and a huge difference in convenience. To backup a single portable computer that is used at home (no customer data that could cost thousands if I lose them), an external drive is good enough. For any professional use, I would more likely get a Time Capsule. I would _not_ go for anything in between that is complicated enough to go wrong.
 
Got Mine

Got mine. All set up. A breeze. Now doing first time capsule backup. What I'm wondering is can I put my itunes library on it and use it throughout my house
 
performance ?

teerexx52 said:
Got mine. All set up. A breeze. Now doing first time capsule backup. What I'm wondering is can I put my itunes library on it and use it throughout my house
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I just got the new MBP and freaked out with the poor network throughput. So was thinking about getting the TC. Since you got one, could I ask you to let us know what kind of throughput do you see while using the TC as a .N router.
Lets say moving a 700 MB divx from the time machine to your laptop (MB or MBP ?) and the other way (uploading). It would help me in my decision to get one.
Thanks in advance !
 
London, Regent's Street laughed and said to come back in a week or two. I got the feeling that he had been asked that question a lot today. I couldn't even get through on the phone and after waiting 30 mins I ended up popping in whilst I was in the West end.
 
skiesforme said:
I just got the new MBP and freaked out with the poor network throughput. So was thinking about getting the TC. Since you got one, could I ask you to let us know what kind of throughput do you see while using the TC as a .N router.
Lets say moving a 700 MB divx from the time machine to your laptop (MB or MBP ?) and the other way (uploading). It would help me in my decision to get one.
Thanks in advance !
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If you can tell me how to measure it I will
 
teerexx52 said:
If you can tell me how to measure it I will
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You can get iStat Pro Menu or the iStat widget and check the network bandwidth while the transfer is settling down near an average throughput.
Another thing you could do is run Acitvity Monitor and check the Network Tab. Under it you would find the graphs (a bit difficult to read). I believe it also has a Average and Max bandwidth parameter in there.
Simplest of all, you could initiate a file transfer - lets says upload a 700 MB divx or any big file to the TC and then download it. Note down the time taken for both and there we have it. A crude measure of average download speed.
I hope I am not overwhelming you with this ;)

Thanks.
 
skiesforme said:
You can get iStat Pro Menu or the iStat widget and check the network bandwidth while the transfer is settling down near an average throughput.
Another thing you could do is run Acitvity Monitor and check the Network Tab. Under it you would find the graphs (a bit difficult to read). I believe it also has a Average and Max bandwidth parameter in there.
Simplest of all, you could initiate a file transfer - lets says upload a 700 MB divx or any big file to the TC and then download it. Note down the time taken for both and there we have it. A crude measure of average download speed.
I hope I am not overwhelming you with this ;)

Thanks.
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No, I'll try to do after it is done with first time machine backup. I already have istat installed and was looking at it while it did the backup. Interesting but the numbers mean nothing to me
 
Got mine at store

Just got mine at the Southpoint store in NC. Unfortunately, I'm at work but as soon as I get home, it's time to set it up!

The guy who sold it to me said he was pissed cuz he ordered it online and it just shipped. He didn't think the stores would have it as fast as they did and said he was told it was better to just order it. In a way, it's safer because I know the Crabtree location sold out of the 1TB model.
 
Diode said:
Is there a way to limit the amount of space time machine backups take up? IE give it a quota?
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I can't answer that now. Yet to get my TC. Might get one tonight after work. My previous post was based on the articles I read from gizmodo, apple forums and macrumors of course. Some say it creates separate partitions for multiple users to back up. Apart from the back up partition, there is the User accessible space which should show up as a network drive. This is my intuition of how it might work. :)
 
Access to backup of other Mac ?

In this scenario
iMac > Time Capsule backup
MBP > Time Capsule backup

May i access from MBP to iMac backup on Time Capsule ?

one more:
may i access to the same folder on Time Capsule from iMac and MBP, isn't it ?
 
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