2TB Time Capsule in the works?
By Nilay Patel 
posted April 6th 2009 3:36PM
posted April 6th 2009 3:36PM
Apple just updated the Airport Extreme and Time Capsule last month, so we don't know if the timing is right for a storage bump, but tipster Brandon just noticed that the ClubMac's promo pic of the TC box features an unmistakable 2TB badge. Makes sense to us -- 500GB is laughably small for a device designed to back up multiple machines, and standard-height 2TB drives are now available from Western Digital and soon from Seagate. We'll keep an eye out -- anyone else hear anything?[Thanks, Brandon]
> And your HP Mediasmart dohickey (which actually has gotten good reviews) can do dual band Wifi?
Why should any particular device NEED to? That's rather the whole point of a network.
You can bring heterogenous devices together and possibly abstract away details like
some wifi standard that will be obsolete by the time product hits the shelves.
Forget the wifi crap, give it a better wired NIC (or 3).
Built in wifi is just a potential security problem.
Mac users like to throw money around and like to brag about throwing money around
(all those lame BMW analogies) so why is it that they don't all have well wired residences?
Because... they don't like wires?
Time Machine is indeed a great backup system in that it's very simple
to set up, but it works perfectly well without a Time Capsule. Mine
is currently happily swapping information with my QNAP NAS plugged
into my wireless router. Plus the QNAP includes iTunes server and a
bittorrent client I can access from any Mac/PC in the house
What an overpriced piece of poopoo!
I'm thinking of replacing my HP media smart but if I will I'm going to buy one of the new Linksys (which hopefully will like to play with my new Linksys Wrt300N Draft N modem).
Only a lobotomized Apple fanboy could think of buying that ugly thing.
For the same price practically everything else on the market is a better choice.
"What an overpriced piece of poopoo!"
I lol'd.
"AMAGADZZ!!111oneoneone This thing is leh suxx, my HP media smart can take three times as much!!! OVERPRICED"
Right, but aren't you aware that this is a wireless N router with printer server, in addition to being a backup device? Plus this thing hasn't even been priced yet, even though I believe it won't come cheap, seeing as the current 1TB one is extermely overpriced compared to the 500GB which I consider is kinda good value considering all the features.
That's the problem with some of the comments made against all Apple equipment that is released. They always believe they can do it cheaper or better elsewhere.
Ring me when I can get fiber channel or eSATA from it to my Mac Mini.
Another over-priced, over-hyped, scam from Apple.
I guess people that buy into this stuff either aren't smart enough to do it themselves (as mentioned above in another post a la the HP WHS backup route) or are simply foolish with their money.
Well, as the aphorism goes, "a fool and his money are soon parted"...that is the quintessential comment that just about sums up most Apple owners.
Well, we should all be glad for our little brothers (i.e. Mac fans) - they got another bone to chew. It may be hard for a PC user to understand when every day brings dozens of new PC-compatible devices. They (Mac users) have to wait months for something new to appear. Just be happy for them - even if the stuff is trivial and overpriced. Keep in mind, once someone paid $3K for a laptop or a desktop, it is very hard to switch back - huge Mac investment requires years to recover from.
too bad, its not the new Time Capsule with 2TB but the new Xserve … http://www.techfieber.de/2009/.....-leistung/
I think people are missing the point here altogether. Newsflash: This device isn't for people who read engadget.
I use a mac mini strung to a couple of terabyte externals, others use WHS, whatever, but for those who aren't tech savvy its not going to fly.
A non tech-savvy family member recently asked how she could back up photos and documents etc on her MacBook air. Much like what I imagine to be the vast proportion of people in the UK, she was using an ISP provided Wireless-G router, and would never connect via ethernet (why bother for internet browsing alone?). To me, the Time capsule seemed like the perfect solution for her, and indeed the bulk of the population (read mac users?) - High speed wireless, totally unattended backup and 2-click restore. What more does Joe Public need?
... And I'm pretty tech savvy and like the ability to leverage TC... It works.
I have to agree - had I not had the mini and N router at my disposal I would indeed have invested in a time capsule - Time Machine is indeed revolutionary.
You realize it's a piece of cake to hack a Time Capsule, no? You could just go out and buy a 2GB drive and replace the one in there... I did that with a 500 GB TC and now use a 1 GB
Who cares really. News flash they'll announce a 4tb one in 6 months...