Reviews for Time Capsule - 2 TB

wasted $350 on this stupid piece of software. spent 7 hours setting it up on the phone to apple. iMovie deleted one of my projects so I went to see if it had backupped my work. it had not. spent 3 hours on the phone to apple, they could not retrieve the file nor help set up the time capsule correctly. they hung up on me. filed a complaint they could not trace the call as the man had given false information. re setting up time capsule did not work and it changed my Internet connection settings so I can not access the Internet anymore unless I use my 3G

Moral of the story: buy 300 UBS instead. worth a lot more than time capsule..


don't buy it unless you like losing your money and wasting time

0 of 2 people found this useful

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

I was very skeptical about this product for the past few years. I was really interested but read so many horrible reviews of the hard drive crashing and it being junk. I recently needed a new wifi router so I bought a 900 dual band series from another brand, and it worked just fine I suppose, but i noted that it slowed down to the slowest piece of equipment in my home, notably either the Wii or the iPhones. I still needed a hard drive. I returned the other unit and got this, works great, no issues, backs up automatically. Worth the money, much faster internet on my computer noted as well.

12 of 12 people found this useful

We have a household full of laptops, many with digital photos that weren't getting backed up in a timely fashion. We really appreciated the smooth way that Time Machine integrated with this unit. The wifi power was also great. After we had it connected for about a month wifi internet started dropping, wifi network remained in place but no internet (internet still worked on the Ethernet connection), and the disk "could not be found." Tried half a dozen resets and other config changes to no avail--the thing is dead now and I've hooked up my old Cisco router. Hope apple will honor the warranty without a lot of hassle.

21 of 28 people found this useful

This is the product I've been looking for! In typical Apple style, it is beautifully built and packaged and offers the simplest of interfaces to setup a brand new wireless network, and fully automated backups for all recent Apple products, AND it allows access to the internal drive like a wireless NAS device, for WIndows computers to backup as well.

Love it!

11 of 11 people found this useful

My Time Capsule has been sitting on my desk and waiting for its moment to shine since 2009. Yes, I occasionally "went back in time" to grab a file I erased without thinking, but last week (and this is 2013) my MBP's 500GB hard drive failed. While the laptop was at the Apple shop for diagnostics, I sat around for over a day biting my nails, not knowing if I lost years' worth of documents, pictures, music and schoolwork... But when I came home all I had to do was say "yes" when asked whether I wanted to restore from a TC backup - it saved my professional and personal lives!! It is seemless and simple, and the router is the easiest I've come across to setup and troubleshoot. Get a Time Capsule!

19 of 21 people found this useful

The Time Capsule was easy to set up and now all it is pretty much good for is a network. Backup never works (I have tried all of the recommended trouble shooting). I am very disappointed with this product. Won't spend my money on this stuff ever again.

39 of 74 people found this useful

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

17 of 20 people found this useful

Before getting the "Time Capsule" i read over many reviews and my conclusion was that about 65% of Time Capsule users were happy with their purchase. My experience was very positive as well. Setting up Time Capsule was not too difficult however, the length of time it took was very long 24-36 hours (300g). That was a bit surprising but once it was completed (January 6th 2013) it was worked like a charm with the exception of increased internet speed (Air Port Extreme is built in). I would definitely suggest Time Capsule.

26 of 27 people found this useful

Airport utility is a ver user friendly router management tool, in true Apple Style. Very high quality. You can barely hear it, even when the drive is being used (soft ticking sound like you would hear with an internal drive)

My only quarrel with it is that its not really designed to be an external storage device, it works best as just a backup destination. Connecting is clunky and in my opinion not designed for storing pictures, videos, or anything else other than Time Machine backups. You can't partions time capsules (easily) without affecting stability and data security.

27 of 28 people found this useful