Reviews for Time Capsule - 2 TB

Its a great product, but the wireless and the USB connections are very slow. Why on earth would apple make this product USB 2.0 when most people using it are exclusively apple users and would prefer a Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 connection. I get
that not everyone is using apple, but give the applephiles the option, we as demographic of customers are not by default stupid.
To be honest with you, instead of the time machine, you are better off paying a bit more for a LaCie 2big hard drive and run it in RAID or JBOD configuration with a Thunderbolt connection, with the option to expand the memory.
Thats what I have done, you can purchase my Time capsule on eBay if you wish. Having transfer speeds up to 4Gb/s via Thunderbolt is far more attractive.

22 of 26 people found this useful

Purchased December 27, 2011 after hard drive in my MacbookPro (Early 2011) died earlier in the month. Apple was kind enough to replace with larger drive. I know of no other company that would've done that. Used it as a backup disk and wireless router until late August 2012 with very, very few issues. I really did forget about the backups because they occurred int he background seamlessly until Aug 2012, when I had an issue with MacbookPro that required Apple to reinstall Mountain Lion. Thankfully, I was able to restore from my backups on TIme Machine. Saved my hide. All my backups were there. Genius Bar recommended I keep my backsups, but begin a full new backup. Made sense. Since the, I've had a terrible time with TC. After backup errors persisted, I was advised to erase disk with old backups (not a huge deal, but definitely not my first choice). This worked until Mid-September when I was unable to get TM to backup to TC properly. Consulted support community with no luck. Apple Care rep was able to get things back to working order.

I just feel like since the problems began, it's taken too much time and energy than I would expect. Glad I have TC, but it definitely isn't as intuitive or user friendly as one should expect from Apple. Could definitely use some improvements. Despite problems, I think I'd still go with TC over other drives just because of support form Apple

69 of 73 people found this useful

I had 2 of the 500gig TC's. My first one just died but I think it was just the power supply went south. I pulled the Hard Drive out, purchased an HD USB Caddy and all of my files were still there. Transferred the files over and all is well. I do agree for the price of the TC it needs to last longer, but DON'T throw your HD out until you check it. The caddy cost $50 from Best Buy and saved me a lot of heartache...

73 of 79 people found this useful

This may be a fine solution for a time-machine backup, but I do not recommend it as a wireless share drive for a time to centrally store and swap files.

We've been using a Time Capsule at our office as a share drive for a couple of years now. We haven't lost data (I've hear some say that they're unstable) but it is CONSTANTLY crashing my machine when trying to copy or delete relatively large chunks of data (500 MB+).

If you are only using this as a Time-Machine backup, or if you have limited need to move data, this might be a fine solution. But if you have large video, image, or other groups of files that you need to move, copy, or delete, steer clear.

We've finally gotten a LaCie server (15TB for about $1,700) and even migrating bit by bit from the Time Capsule machine has me banging my head against the desk. I want to throw this thing out the window.

I only give it three stars because I realize it may do a good job as a regular Time-Machine backup.

51 of 52 people found this useful

As a long term solution you would be better off buying a stand alone back up device and if you need wireless get a wireless router. I am about to be on my 3rd time capsule in 2 1/2 years.

For ease of use, set-up and trouble free operation (if it is working) is excellent though. It is beyond my understanding why the do not last longer? Planned obsolescence I guess?

66 of 73 people found this useful

I bought one about 2 years ago and though the world of the machine. It is a powerful and fast router and also seamlessly performed regular backup functions. It was the easiest back up device I have ever owned I set it up once and forgot about it. The other day it reminded me how important it was. Because IT DIED. I did a lot of sniffing around on the internet and found out that due to poor cooling the typical life span of one of these units is about 20 months. There is a lot of sites to go to re: mods and repairs for them so I guess I'll have to warm up the old soldering iron. It is not covered by warranty or re-call so it seems the best option is a total re-build in my spare time.....

80 of 82 people found this useful

I used Time Capsule for over a year with no problems. After a power outage, however, the dating started from the day power was restored. Now it doesn't work at all since I installed Lion.

83 of 107 people found this useful