Functionality at a price

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Functionality at a price

APPLE'S TIME CAPSULE is one of the most expensive external hard drives you can buy. But then again it isn't an ordinary external hard drive.

 

[HavocXphere]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but most of the time your Mac/PC will be switched on anyway while using this TimeCapsule...so it would probably be better to use firewire instead of bothering with the network.

Annoying that the article doesn't mention whether it can handle gigabit networks.

 

[dotcat]

Yeah - if the stupid thing actually worked it would be great - Apple you guys really let me down with this one. What does "the backup volume could not be mounted mean?!!!!" it is mounted! I am playing my itunes library off it! But no, time machine cannot connect to it. Bring on the bug fixing updates!

 

[atmosphere]

i sent mine back to apple...

The sad reality is - that a normal stupid Marconi ADSL modem with WIFI outperforms it on the WIFI side.

Everywhere on the net it says that 802.11n can reach up to DOUBLE the wifi distance than that of 802.11g. It even states it on the box. YEt... less than 20m away i get more reception with a telkom router than with the mighty Apple Time Capsule...

I was dissapointed.

I did a LOT of experimentation on it... even got an Airport Extreme (n) in from the shop to compare differences.

Big drawbacks on the Time capsule:
- Wifi are not as promised on the box
- No external aerial connector


But that's about it. Stunning throughput on wifi... i got up to 6mbps transfers with my macbook (n) to the TC (upload and download)

You can also connect a USB hub to the single usb port it has. With simultaneous multiple USB drives/printers

And if you REALLY want to void your warranty... you can buy the 500GB version, open it up, and replace it with your OWN 1000GB drive. This is not too hard to do.

Oh... and the UTP ports are 1000mbps

 

[HavocXphere]

But that's about it. Stunning throughput on wifi... i got up to 6mbps transfers with my macbook (n)

I hope you mean 6MB/s cause 6mbps is very very slow. Bits vs Bytes.

 

[atmosphere]

yes yes yes... "MB/s"

I woudl certainly hope that apple doesn't actually release such an expensive piece of kit and it only goes 1000mb/s or 6mb/s wifi...

i WiLl tRy tO uS coRreCt CaPs nExT tImE

 

[HavocXphere]

i WiLl tRy tO uS coRreCt CaPs nExT tImE

yeah...I'm being difficult, I know.

 

[PeterCH]

Fail. FW800 transport makes more sense, pity that FW800 drives are rare
at places like IC. You either have to order a LaCie (which I have and
are cr@p) or order over the web.

 

[Tns]

This drive does seem handy but is priced a bit steap

 

[TimTDP]

An Ximeter enclosure does all this. It has an ethernet and USB connection. It comes as an enclosure so you can install any size hard drive into it.
I bought mine a while ago and think I paid around R600 for it.
Works well.

 

[ThatOtherGuy]

Functionality at a price

Apple is expensive. PERIOD!

 

[Wyzak]

That said, because there's no option to connect via USB, dumping large amounts of data across the network takes a while: backing up 180GB from my hard drive to the Time Capsule took a few hours.

I presume that this device does not support Gigabit Ethernet then? Or is the author of this article lacking the basic understanding that fast ethernet is considerably slower than USB 2.0, but that Gigabit Ethernet is twice as fast?

 

[Rouxenator]

What does "the backup volume could not be mounted mean?!!!!"

Hehehehe, I guess you need a pretty and shiny icon to tell you that instead of normal old text Yes - text is sooo PC, isn't it ?

 

[Rouxenator]

yeah...I'm being difficult, I know.

Only when you are using fruit as a computer

 

[Sapphiron]

What, Apple products are overpriced? I would never have thought.

 

[sabagamma]

Some people consider NAS a bit of a toy. Any opinions?

 

[Turiko]

Apple is expensive. PERIOD!

Apple's stuff has ALWAYS BEEN expensive. Period!