Time Capsule

[Atty]

I'm considering buying a Time Machine. My 4 year old Macbook Pro's hard drive is making annoying noises and I can only assume it is about to die. I'd like to pick up a 2TB Time Capsule and use it but I'm not sure yet.

My only concern is using it for my Xbox 360 and how well it deals as a network attatched storage for dropping files to access from anywhere else in the house (like, videos from my Xbox).

Anyone use one? Things I should be wary of? All the devices in my house are Mac (iPods, iPads, iPhones, Apple TV's, and Mac's) with the exception of my Xbox. Just want to be sure there are no real horror stories before I drop some money.

 

[dawks]

I had one back in 2008, with a 500gig harddrive. I found moving files to and from it to be pretty slow. Probably fast enough to stream video.. but annoyingly slow copying files.. Maybe as high as 10megs/sec. I think the CPU in it was just too slow. Perhaps the newer ones have a faster CPU. Streaming out to the Xbox probably isnt going to work very well since it tends to prefer media server software.

That one died in about a year (power supply toasted).. I had a bunch of data on there that I needed off, so I cracked it open, pulled the drive, and got the data off. A few months later, turns out a bunch of people were having issues so they did a recall. They wouldn't accept mine because I opened it though. I was some pissed off. It was by far my worst Apple experience ever.

If you have a working router, I'd recommend just getting an external USB drive and using that for backups. The one advantage a Time Capsule has is that it can backup as soon as a device connects to the network, no plugging in a USB cable.

 

[sourceninja]

I really think a large USB drive with a router that supports sharing and crashplan is a much better setup than time machine and a time capsule.