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The one drawback we found with networked hard drive: while a Windows system can read and write to a drive that's formatted in OS X's HSF+ drive format, an OS X-based system on the network won't be able to detect the drive connected to the Time Capsule if it's in Windows' NTFS format. You can also use a USB hub to expand the number of ports and connect multiple shared devices at once. The USB port on the back lets you add an external hard drive or a networked printer for use in OS X, Windows, or both. Other than the updated performance and storage capacity, this new Time Capsule has the same positive and negative characteristics as previous models. If you need a low-cost storage device to transfer large files between systems, such as in a multi-workstation video-editing environment, you'll save transfer time if you opt for a standalone NAS drive. That signals to us that Apple sees the Time Capsule as primarily a backup device and for consumer-oriented local file sharing. The Time Capsule boasts reasonably competitive write speed compared with the 2TB Western Digital, Iomega, and Seagate drives, but it can't offer even half as much read performance as those drives that all cost less than $200. Its performance against dedicated NAS drives is less clear-cut. The Time Capsule outperforms all of its Wi-Fi-enabling competition in terms of basic data read and write speeds, regardless of whether competing devices have an internal hard drive, like the Wireless Space, or an external drive like the others. The results of our read and write performance tests allow us to draw less equivocal conclusions than our networking tests, at least compared with devices that are also routers. Compared with several leading standard routers, the old Time Capsule, as well as LaCie's competing router/back up device the Wireless Space, the Time Capsule posts respectable performance at both the 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz wireless bands. In addition to those updates, we found that Apple has taken some very noticeable steps to improve the Time Capsule's wireless networking performance.

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Apple's AirPort Utility controls the wireless network for both OS X and Windows, the hard drive appears as a standard networked storage device, and on OS X, you use Apple's Time Machine software to manage software backups. Setting up and managing the Time Capsule are also the same as before. It has the same array of ports: a WAN input, three Ethernet jacks, and a USB input, as well as the same minimalist design as the previous model. Where before Apple offered dual-band networking and 1TB of network storage in the $299 Time Capsule, Apple now offers 2TB for the same price, with a 3TB model going for a harder-to-understand $499.Īside from the hard-drive capacity upgrade, it might seem as if Apple hasn't changed much with the new Time Capsule. On July 2, a major vulnerability affecting all Western Digital NAS drives running OS3 was also revealed.If you're familiar with Apple's Time Capsule line, you will find few surprises in this updated version.

That exploit was apparently in place from the day the drives first hit the market and was never repaired. In late June, Western Digital My Book Live Hard Drives were the victim of an exploit that allowed the contents of the drives to be remotely deleted. It has been a rough month for consumer network-attached storage devices.

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Dattenrettung recommends that current users of the fifth-generation Time Capsule devices look for an alternative backup solution, while 9to5Mac notes that iFixit has a detailed guide that shows how to swap the hard drives from the AirPort Time Capsule for another. While in some cases data can be recovered, that is not always the case nor is it always fully recoverable. “If the Time Capsule is switched on again or if it wakes up from sleep, the data disks of the Seagate hard drive are destroyed because the deformed read/write unit rubs against them.”ĭattenrettung says that the nearly 100% of cases where Time Capsules from this period needed repair were linked to this “identical damage” and affects all fifth-generation Time Capsule devices. “The damage to the parking ramp then leads to the read/write unit being destroyed and severely deformed the next time the read/write unit is parked,” Dattenrettung writes.

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