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Dying Time Capsules
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Are Apple Time Capsules Short Lived? - Time Capsule - Gizmodo
Unfortunately, the referencing site is currently down (I'm guessing it got slashdotted or something).
I always did find it a little ridiculous that Apple used some of the worst hard drives on the market for the 1TB Time Capsule - not to mention that neither model uses multiple drives for any kind of redundancy.
This particular run of problems may be related to the power supply. Still, kind of a problem.
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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But but but… they’re server-grade! 
Really though — it’s a hard drive. Hard drives die after a while. The good news is that you can replace the hard drive if the built-in one goes bad.
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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I thought the root of the problem had something to do with the power supplies, not the hard drives.
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DISCLAIMER: I have not watched the last two seasons of BSG yet.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: CO
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The reviews in the Apple store raise interesting questions (though the users rather noobie). People seem to love the performance (except one who complained that if multiple people are backing up at once [?from scratch? - he doesn't say.] everyone's throughput suffers. duh.
However, there are lot of 1-star reviews - mostly complaining that "it died" after 18mos. Unfortunately they don't say *what* died: the HD? To me that's a key issue: I'd like to know that if the MoBo/powersupply dies I can lift the HD out and drop it into another TC.
Also: am I missing it or is there no Apple Care for the TC (or: only if bought with an entire system or some such?)?
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TOMBSTONE: "He's trashed his last preferences"
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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Given the amount of heat that Time Capsules generate I'm not surprised the the drives go awol after such a short time, or that other components suffer. Time machine should really be viewed as only one part of a back up strategy, however on the plus side at least people who never considered backup have something in place now.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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I thought this bad capacitor problem should have blown over by now. Are there still bad capacitors out their being used today or did the TC somehow end up using bad capacitor leftovers?
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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Ah, here we go. Just found the WP article.
Apparently bad capacitors were still being used in manufacturing as late as 2007.
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