Reviews for Time Capsule - 2TB

Using a Time Capsule for back-up´s is an easy and convenient solution. Airport and access are fast and safe. Nevertheless, it is better not to rely to much on the storage solution.
My Time Capsule crashed and after less than one year in use. Apple might provide repairing service, but the data is lost anyway.
Having learned from this bad experience, the next home use backup-drive will have at least two HD´s and will run as a RAID 1 system.

Initial setup was easy for 1st Mac, second Mac would not recognize network at all. After much troubleshooting we were able to get the network and Time Capsule to work with both Macs. Then after a month we lost the Time Capsule function. Then we lost the network function. After a firmware upgrade, it worked again for about three months. Now the Time Capsule is bust again.

Overall, we are very disappointed in the the performance and reliability of this product. We were hesitant at first to buy a Time Capsule, but a lot of reviews made it it look like the new version was more reliable. I would have to say NO. Safe your money and find a more reliable product.

2nd Time Capsule power supply failed last week just beyond warranty. Will not buy this device or anything like it again. I thought the new models mitigated heat with green drives but am now thinking this product may be a lemon. In both cases I was left with the option of trade in which would result in total loss of my valuable data. Each incident resulted in protracted heat gun process to open up and remove the drive and all the lost time and down time involved.

I just returned a netgear n600 wireless router....i got really impressive mbps and range but of course when i attempted to readyshare both a new enclosure or jump drive it recognized neither. And of course the advertised 24/7 support actually does not come with the product despite being in bold on the box.

Solution, my new 2TB Time Capsule, in five minutes (and im not exaggerating) I have all of my movies, music, and had the option to set up time machine back up upon installation. And my new wireless network basically setup itself.

A salesman from another retailer told me my connection and MBPS might suffer by going with this option and of course he was .... WRONG!.

I am getting my 85-95 mbps, just as beautifully as ever.. Apple you make my computer life a lot less of a hassle...thanks.

Rating 4 stars. Would be 5 stars if not for the following problem:

Cannot use Time Machine backups when changing to Time Capsule.

You can upgrade drive size for Time Machine To Time Machine and Time Capsule to Time Capsule. You cannot upgrade Time Machine to Time Capsule databases. Apple support confirmed this. There are some hacks on the internet but I would not recommend them until Apple approves. Apple needs a better way to upgrade drive size and changing the databases, recommend a button on Time Machine preferences to move database with the above mentioned options. Apple would then fix the database so moving either forward or backward would not be an issue and easy for us consumers.

If you need those backups suggest you let Time Capsule backup the old Time Machine backup files and then restore to a drive if the Time Machine Databases are needed.

I had mine for over 2 years now. We had a power issue and it stopped working properly. I thought my computers were defective, then I called Apple Support, and all what I needed to do is do a hardware reset, and it continues to work perfectly. All the data stored remained there, and connectivity is far beyond any router I ever had.

If you use a Time Capsule as a wireless base station, it works fine. But, if you want it to join an existing network, you'll be out of luck. You can join an existing network, but you'll get shocking performance: 2MB/sec absolute maximum, and < 1MB/sec most of the time.

Spent an hour with Apple support, and they told me that "a Time Capsule is not meant to be used as a wireless client". (Never mind that you can explicitly configure it that way.)

For me, that's a show stopper because I wanted to physically separate my backup drive from my Mac Pro; I cannot use the Time Capsule as a base station because the cable modem access point is right where the computer is.

The recent 7.6 firmware upgrade did not fix this. I'm very disappointed with the the entire thing. The one reason I bought the Time Capsule was to have a physically separate backup drive, but it cannot be used that way.

Bought a TC some 3 years ago. I have never had anything up and running falwlessly so fast....home network, desktop, pc, backup's, printers, iPhones, etc......I was completely sold on this product!!! then like many others I now see, time came up when the TC decided its usefull life had come to an end, and simply died a year ago. After 12 months I decided to re-consider replacing it so I came to the site and after reading all comments have decided, NO WAY! NO MORE TC'S FOR ME!!!

We had our time capsule repaired twice by Apple and it always came up with error messages after install. We found out that it really was only good for taking our time and encapsulating it in a place where we would never get it back. Love the other product I have bought from Apple, but the time capsule was not one of them.

I was wondering whether to get this or not, but I am sure glad that I did. We have a iMac and a MacBook Pro and plan on getting a MacBook Air in the near future. We never backed up any of our systems because you had to plug the hard drive up, etc. This is so easy as the commercial back in the day said " set it and forget it".
It also increase the speed of my wireless connection by 10 mbps, WOW. We used to run at 15 mbps now we are averaging 25 mbps on the wireless Macs in our home.
The only downside is that once in a while the Macs cannot find the time capsule to do a back up and then it suddenly appears, don't get it but oh well as long as it backs up, I am fine.
We also use it to store data that I don't want cluttering up the MacBook Pro.
I would tell anyone to get this product it is well worth the money.