Reviews for Time Capsule - 2 TB

Bought the 2TB to replace my WD 1TB which have given up the ghost and I must say has lived up to expectations.

Installation was simple, straight forward even with bridged to current Sky router. All very smooth and up in running in minutes. Switched over all other WiFi devices to new Time Capsule and all is very well.

Seems to have solved issues I was having with Sky WiFi as well which is a bonus indeed!

After being easy to setup and quietly backing up photos wirelessly for 18 months my 2TB Time Capsule (cost £249) failed yesterday, with a maximum of only 639GB of space ever having been used :(

The only hint I had that something might be amiss was a 'parse bundle could not be found' message appeared on my iMac screen. The light on the time capsule changed to amber and in a trice the light went out. Since then nothing, it's completely dead.

Bought from John Lewis in July 2011 but whereas I thought it had a 2 year guarantee I was told it was just one year.

I would recommend anyone thinking of buying a time capsule to Google it beforehand! Not to just rely on this site, Which and Amazon, as I did. It seems there are sites where a fair number of users indicate it has an average life span of between 18-22 months.

Such a disappointment for what was and still looks like a brilliant product; plus at the time I could have purchased a 1TB one for less money but bought the bigger one because I thought it would be more economical in the long run...... I was expecting 4-5 years akin to my Western Digital passport. And yes, I know things will fail but I honestly hadn't expected such a comparatively short time frame.

Been running this for a year with lots of success and no problems!

Doubles up as additional WiFi so my iDevices use the Time capsule on 5GHz and other devices use the traditional WiFi at 2.4GHz. Back-ups are great and reliable, also important family pics are backed up on iCloud.
The file storage is also great for storing backups from additional non-apple OS's , and digital media within the household.

Initially I connected this to my existing wireless router by ethernet, and used it in bridge mode with all the wifi transmitter off. This worked for a couple of days, but then had intermittent problems with the network disk not showing up on computers. The only way I could get it to work reliably was to use it as the wireless access point as well, and disable wifi on my existing router. Which is fine, except if the Time Capsule fails I will lose wifi connectivity as well. And on principle, it is supposed to work both ways.

Connecting a USB disk into it and sharing it is temporamental (could be the USB disk to be fair, but had no problems connected directly to the computer.)

The Airport Utility has some quirks - I have found certain settings only stick if you change them in a certain order.

If when you format a disk, you change the volume name to something other than the default "data", it has a nasty habit of reverting the name back to "data" again unexpectedly. This means the computers then have to be pointed to a different backup volume.

These kinds of issues I expect from cheaper brands. The device essentially works, but paying premium prices for Apple brand, I expect a more polished product.

My 1st generation 500GB TC worked flawlessly until the power supply died in just under 3 years (24/7 operation). I always keep one backup of a backup so when it died I wasn't left without my data. Apple replaced it for free due to extended warranty on the product (no apple care in place). 1.5 year later the replacement still works. Good value for money.

Always back up your TC to another external Hard disk!!!!
(once a month)

Apple also replaced my 80GB hard disk in a MB AIr from 2008 (free). This happened a few days before the TC died. I did upgrade to a new 2012 version recently.

I will probably keep on buying Apple kit as long as Apple looks after their customers.If the repair costs stack up then I will probably go back to cheaper products because cheap can replaced with cheap

I too bought a Time Machine three years ago and it worked perfectly till yesterday when it just died. No power. I will have to get a new one and hope the Apple Store can retrieve the stored info. off the old one. It does get expensive if they have a problem of just dying every three years. Lets hope this problem has been fixed with the newer models

Was previously using vm's superhub which only works on single band 2.4 ghz or 5ghz which meant because I have nintendo products in the house had to choose 2.4 and my wireless speeds were top 70mbs down normally much less (like 30mbs down) , now my download speed is 100mbs down pretty constant on the macbook pro . Time machine backups every hour is great as well because I cant be bothered to keep finding a usb external hard drive every week or so.

I've waited 2 years to leave my comments as there seems to be an issue with this unit.

I must say mine has been perfect apart from a few times whist backing up the power on my MacBook Pro or iMac was turned off, this corrupted the back ups and the whole back up needed to be restarted.

WIFI range massively improved nearly a full signal all over the house and a little in the Garden. We have a 6 bed, so quite large. The speed is noticeable fast as well (tested via speediest.net).

Easy to set up and you don't even notice is working in the background.

All in all an awesome product and i recommend this to anybody.

This is so easy to setup and works out of the box like all Apple products I have, I have BT Fibre and the HP ENVY 110 AirPrint printer, on the BT Hub this worked some times and would never wake the printer from sleep mode which it should, I now have the latest Time Capsule and everything works just like a dream, very impressed with this product.

I have the MacBook Pro Retina and backing up to the Time Capsule is fast, effortless and so easy to setup, if you are looking for a wireless backup system this is the one!

Have had this for about 2 years now and have had absolutely no problems with it at all.