Reviews for Time Capsule - 3TB

Apple is losing the war. 4TB drives are common, USB 2.0 is so passe and where is the Thunderbolt for a shared drive? Drag this product, kicking and screaming, into 2012 with some better shared drive capability and some real capacity

12 of 16 people found this useful

It installed and worked perfectly with little setup. Wireless worked. Network worked. My printers didn't worked but one has a scanner and that option does NOT work when connected to TC.

However, I have to say the continual error message saying "Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you."

This is NOT improving reliability. It is evidence of UNreliability. The Apple site says "Back up a lifetime's worth of memories with Time Capsule..." Hmmm. No. it can't even backup (and keep uncorrupted) a week's worth of memories.

Great looking product. Worked brilliantly for a few months. Now, useless and untrustworthy.

22 of 32 people found this useful

This is an expensive product. But it is also an excellent one.

My wife and I both have had various Macbooks and Macbook Pros for years. We have used Time Machine since its inception, and have always relied on it for backups. Being laptops, we've preferred wireless backup drives.

We have tried using several solutions. The most reliable seemed to be an Apple Airport with drives hooked up to the USB ports. Though this worked fairly well, there was always little problems, mostly centering around drive availability when Time Machine was ready to back up. Time Machine seems pretty sensitive to any significant latency when it's ready to do it's thing, often requiring a reboot to get everything back in line when a glitch happened. Various workarounds helped, but there were still little niggling problems now and then.

Not any more! Since installing our 3 TB Time Capsule, things click along smooth as silk. When Time Machine wakes up to do it's thing, the Time Capsule's drive mounts on my desktop. The backup happens, and the drive disappears. Simple, quick and reliable. I also have two drives connected for extra storage, both of which work great, and three printers shared, all of which are easily accessible from my Macs, my PCs, and even my Linux boxes.

Good job, Apple! Well worth the price!

17 of 19 people found this useful

I bought my first TC (500GB) 6+ years ago with my 24" iMac. It was a breeze to set up and has reliably backed up every hour since - saving my bacon on many occasions. My only "problem" came last year when the TC was full, at which point it obviously and understandably couldn't perform full back-ups and I had to make some manual provisions. At that point I purchased a 2TB TC, which has also worked flawlessly and now backs up both my 24" and 27" iMacs - loaded with large graphic design and motion graphic files. We had a power outage yesterday at which point I lost some unsaved files on my 27". TC saved the day yet again.

I don't understand the problems people are having with set-up and early drive failure. If you have a problem, call Apple's legendary service line and they'll quickly resolve it for you. I never go without Apple Care for extended protection. Oh, and my 6+ year old TC? Still runs like a champ. I just use it for a back up external drive now that my 2TB has taken over as primary router and back up. Apple rocks and the TC is no exception.

22 of 30 people found this useful

The time capsule is the best way to store your data for any reason you might have, this product has help me in so many ways its unbelievable! I've had this device for so long and I haven't even used a TB yet! 5 stars!

24 of 31 people found this useful

We purchased the 3TB Time Capsule to replace an existing AirPort Extreme on a hybrid Apple/Windows network. I dreaded the the changeover for fear of the nightmare it would be with all the various devices on the network. These fears were totally unfounded. It took less than five minutes to make a seamless transition. We plugged the TimeCapsule in and it all but did everything automatically. It even transferred the old settings and reset the old AE base to factory settings. I didn't have to do a thing other than make a few clicks.

Thank you 1 Infinite Loop for making product that was so easy to install and plays very nicely with products from Redmond, WA.

44 of 49 people found this useful

I have not been completely satisfied. I have had to have my Time Capsule "repaired" twice at the Genius Bar when it simply quit working. In both cases 10 days passed before I was alerted that there had been no downloads in so many days. I fear that I must say this product is unreliable. For the price, one expects far more. I would not recommend. There are other products far less expensive that do the job.

146 of 172 people found this useful

Beware that you cannot stack anything under or ontop ofthis unit as it runs incredibly HOT. I had my Mac Mini under the Tme Capsule and the mini started having problems due to the heat generated by the TimeCapsule. They were both sitting out in the open on a desk - good air flow all around. No fan for cooling the TimeCapsule means it is quiet but can cook eggs on top.

The device is as good as a mid-range wireless base station. Having the built-in Time Machine backup drive is the big deal, though. Highly recommended for Macbooks/iMacs to have a wireless backup source.

93 of 101 people found this useful

Still after all of this time, with all the competition using at minimum 4 ports why does poor apple still offer us only three? :(

Let me explain what I would do with four ports on a wireless system so maybe in the future we can finally see the addition of another port.

Port 1) My computer, you know, the beast computer. Not some lackey kids mac, but a monster mac that tells me it wants to go as fast as possible without delay or interference from my neighbors wireless. It wants to transfer files as fast as possible to my other gigabit port connected computers.

Port 2) My mac-mini web / fileserver.

Port 3) Mac Pro mass storage media server. Hey I have an old mac pro, I needed to do something with it right?

Port 4) Skype Phone base station or a uplink to a second router.

Barring this, the range is better than the last two brand's I purchased "THIS MONTH", and less headache setting up wireless printing, and external storrage even on older external storage devices. My last two routers were a Trendnet 450mbps and a linksys 450mbps dual band router.

If I were to say anything else critical of the apple router it would be that I would like to be able to see all of my port-forwarding at once instead of having to enter each title to find out what I portered where, but that's probably because I use so many ports.

74 of 104 people found this useful

This review is for the 1 TB model. Good speed, I had a bit of trouble to set it up but once done, it worked very well. Time machine is an excellent idea.

After two years and a half, 2 1/2, the light went off to never turn on again. Apple does not carry repair parts for this product and to replace it costs 90% of the original cost with only 90 days warranty. Basically it is a sealed disposable unit with very short shelf life.

With over $100 dollars cost per year of service, no post sales support after warranty, it is below expectations for an Apple product.

I already had problems with the i-phone vibrator, mac book pro power cord, mac book pro battery, mac book pro hard drive, mac book pro ram memory expansion and now Time Capsule. Only one Ipad is saved from genius (bar) of Apple.

As the products break down will be phasing out of Apple products. Back to Windows. Good marketing creative department but poor manufacturing quality and support. I know that I am not going to impact the most profitable company of the world, but at least I will not feel a fool.

It was nice while it lasted, but I couldn't recover my $300 engagement ring!!!!

120 of 211 people found this useful