Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Time Machine HD Drives
- Thread starter Bluedog54
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Time Capsule? Or Time Machine?
If it is the capsule, then there does not seem to be a server grade HDD in it: http://www.google.com/search?client...oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=s-gJT-HOIMnAswbSpoiCDw
Depending on the year, I believe them to be WD GREEN drives... the lowest performance of a reasonably good line-up.
That's what mine was when I replaced it with a larger capacity drive.
Here's from WiKi:
Hard drive
The hard drive typically found in a Time Capsule is the Hitachi Deskstar, which is sold by Hitachi as a consumer-grade product (the Hitachi Ultrastar is the enterprise version).[8] Apple labeled the drive as a server-grade drive in promotional material for Time Capsule, and also used this type of drive in its discontinued Xserve servers. Apple states that the Hitachi Deskstar meets or exceeds the 1 million hour mean time between failures (MTBF) recommendation for server-grade hard drives.[9]
The 500GB, 1st generation Time Capsule shipped with a Seagate Barracuda ES-series drive.[10]
More recently, other hard drives such as the Western Digital Caviar Green series,[11] and the Samsung EcoGreen series have been reported.
That's what mine was when I replaced it with a larger capacity drive.
Here's from WiKi:
Hard drive
The hard drive typically found in a Time Capsule is the Hitachi Deskstar, which is sold by Hitachi as a consumer-grade product (the Hitachi Ultrastar is the enterprise version).[8] Apple labeled the drive as a server-grade drive in promotional material for Time Capsule, and also used this type of drive in its discontinued Xserve servers. Apple states that the Hitachi Deskstar meets or exceeds the 1 million hour mean time between failures (MTBF) recommendation for server-grade hard drives.[9]
The 500GB, 1st generation Time Capsule shipped with a Seagate Barracuda ES-series drive.[10]
More recently, other hard drives such as the Western Digital Caviar Green series,[11] and the Samsung EcoGreen series have been reported.