http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/And how much memory does it have?]]>Mar 1st 2008 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/server-grade drive.]]>Mar 1st 2008 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/
If you put 500 GB or 1TB of your most important data on this there is still only 1 drive! should have at least two 500GB and give people the choice to RAID it or not..

I feel it's giving people a false sence of security!]]>Mar 1st 2008 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/
I'm sorry, but are you telling me that the average Joe that buys that thing to backup 5 movies, 30 mp3s and 2-3 word documents will need to RAID 1 his BACKUP DRIVE ?!? you have to be kidding. IT IS the backup for crying out loud... you're supposed to have a copy on your main computer if that drive fails.

I don't think Apple EVER wanted this to be an enterprise grade backup server. I think they just wanted to provide an easy way to backup stuff since people still don't do it even with Time Machine.]]>Mar 1st 2008 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/
Exactly, it's a backup device not a storage device. That's not to say people won't use it as a storage device, I know I will be, but I know it'll be at my own risk.

The fact remains Apple are billing the drive inside it as "server-grade", yes server-grade drives fail but they're tested to higher tolerances and have a higher MTBF.]]>Mar 2nd 2008 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.vonwentzel.net/ABS/Dissection-Extreme-n/index.html]]>Mar 1st 2008 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/
sorry sometimes my fingers type without consulting my brain]]>Mar 1st 2008 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/
It's on preorder.]]>Mar 1st 2008 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/
but the title & description did make me laugh. :-)]]>Mar 1st 2008 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 4th 2008 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 16th 2008 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/
I mean, sure the mini fan will blow air across the back of the main circuit board, but i would think the hard drive would be the warmest component in that machine (in my computer, the hard drives are usually at about 38C at load, and thats with a fan blowing across them). Does the hard drive have any sort of active cooling? or is it just passive (and you would think they would include a heatsink with the harddrive)]]>Mar 1st 2008 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/]]>Mar 1st 2008 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/
Poke a hole in its case and rewire it so you can use an external sata hdd!
It would have been better if it was eSata but you will just have to put the 2 devices next to eachother!

Anyone up for this hack?]]>Mar 1st 2008 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/
He's right. It won't be long before someone puts a larger HD in there.]]>Mar 1st 2008 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/RIght now I just plug in a USB drive that I've dedicated 80gb to once a week and let it do it's thing.]]>Mar 1st 2008 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/]]>Mar 1st 2008 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/>It's a single drive. This means that a drive failure will result in data loss.
Welcome to the world of external hard drives, my friend.]]>Mar 1st 2008 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/]]>Mar 1st 2008 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/
Actually My machine has two. Please don't make snarky assumptions. And yes, I'm well aware of the fallacy that RAID is not a substitute for backups.

My concern stems from the fact that if this device develops a problem that results in taking it back to apple for repair or replacement what happens to my data? While I understand it is a primarily backup device and it can be argued that my data really exists in two places (PC & Time Capsule.) I'm SOL if decide to use this as a NAS to host files that I don't need/want on my PC and the drive goes south.
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I get the impression that this thing has no vents.]]>Mar 1st 2008 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/
Probably large enough to let in/out a ring of singular molecules!]]>Mar 2nd 2008 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/
You still have the original copy if this breaks, or this copy if the original breaks. That's a whole lot better than most people's back up solution (I really should but can't be arsed!)]]>Mar 1st 2008 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/
http://timecapsule.yahoo.com/yahootime/overview.php]]>Mar 1st 2008 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/Mar 1st 2008 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/01/time-capsule-opened-despite-it-not-yet-being-the-future/http://www.amazon.com/Hitachi-HDS721010KLA330-Deskstar-7K1000-3-5-Inch/dp/B000PDK53E

New Egg sells it for $274 (after rebate) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145141

I think the pricing of the 1TB Time Capsule seems to be just right, IMO.

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