Reviews for Time Capsule - 2 TB

The TimeCapsule is a great product for backing-up your Mac. It is easy to set up, has a powerful router and great design.

And to all of the negative reviews made on the old Time Capsules, on which the power supplies died:

Be aware that this is the 4th generation Time Capsule, you are making a review on. Not the 1st, 2nd or 3rd. I can understand your disappointment. But your reviews are misleading, as this is a much newer version, which does not neccessarily suffer from similar issues.

Two of these have now died on me (first purchased in 2008 failed Jan 2010, replaced Jan 2010 failed Sept 2011) in my opinion this cant be relied upon as a credible product. They appear to have a life span of 18 months which is hopeless. The idea is great, the execution is elegant, it is so easy to set up but ultimately it is flawed. Avoid it.

I've purchased three of these products and two of them have failed with the loss of all data.

It's a shame. but it's a risky product to use as a backup.

YUP I buy all the stuff in the 5 star reviews. It looks lovely, is a doddle to set up etc. but what use is that if the thing collapses after the obligatory 18 months of gentle and loving use? I now have a pretty lump of worthless plastic.

One of the reviews even said "it was so easy to restore from, that even when this collapses I will buy another one" Err it is time machine that makes it easy to restore from or even any disc using something like Chronosync, is dead easy to restore from.

For the same money, I can buy 4TB and a decent wireless access point that will outlast all of this.

Sorry Apple, love your Computers, not so sure about your OS direction but if you want to charge premium prices please at least provide premium quality not just pretty frippery

The biggest problem of this product is internal Power Supply.
Like many of others, power died after 13month of use.
Very disappointed.

Same as everybody else! Power supply failure, got home one day and it was completely dead. This product is not fit for purpose, how can the device designed to rescue your data should your computer die, fail before your computer?!

After reading reviews 2 years ago, I unfortunately decided to purchase a 1TB Time Capsule hoping mine would last. Easy to install and set up, worked great till last week. 2 years and 1 week.

18 months of happy use, now no light, in fact nothing at all. Seems TC's are in the habit of expiring after a while - beware !!

Our 3rd Time Capsule has just packed in (as short shelf life as the other two - max 2 years), and it wasn't cheap.

Appalling since it's supposed to be a BACKUP solution that all our laptops have outlived.

We were seriously doubting whether to get another Time Capsule, but thought 3rd time lucky (or unlucky as it turns out).

Just save your money and prolong your life with 5 years by avoiding Time Capsule at all cost.

On paper a great product, in practice a very poor one. Not up to Apple's usual standards. I've owned Apple kit for 20 years and always been impressed. But with the Time Capsule I paid a high price and just like other reviewers on here got just one year of life.