Comments on: Steve Jobs announces “Time Capsule” wireless backup device

By: LTO Tape

LTO Tape — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:56:14 +0000

i was quiet unaware with Capsules before reading this post… but its pretty well described by the author… great post

By: LTO Tape

LTO Tape — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:56:14 +0000

i was quiet unaware with Capsules before reading this post… but its pretty well described by the author… great post

By: anonymous 2

anonymous 2 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:48:12 +0000

Spoke to a mac guy who told me a software update was going to be a likely solution for the AEBS to act like the Time Capsule

By: macFanDave

macFanDave — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:39:40 +0000

Well, I hope they let have the DIY Time Capsule (aka Time Machine over AirDisk) or I’ll be doubly screwed!

SuperDuper! was working great over my AirDisk network until I upgraded to Leopard and SD still hasn’t made the leap successfully.

I’ve been backing up my main Mac with a dedicated external HD, but getting the rest of the Macs in my house backed up over the network is what I really want.

That would suck if Time Machine over AirDisk isn’t restored just so Apple can sell more Time Capsules. I sure hope they don’t pull that!

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:30:22 +0000

I’m in the same boat as Eric and Stephan. I bought an Airport Extreme and a hard drive based on Apple’s original advertising. I figured that feature was dropped because it wasn’t quite working right and would be reintroduced with a future update. Instead they create a whole new product! It’s never a bad thing to have extra hard drive space but what the hell am I going to do with the extra Airport Extreme? It’s an open box so even if I am able to resell it I won’t be able to get all my money back. Let me know if you hear about a class action suit!!!

By: Stephan

Stephan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:12:25 +0000

I bought an Airport Extreme and a external drive so I could have an AirDisk to back up all of computers, never could get it to work. Problem Apple won’t admit. So their solution is Time Capsule, hosing those of us that bought the Airport Extreme? I hope their is a class action suit, easy solution would be for Apple to come up with a trade up program.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:16:05 +0000

I agree with Eric Burns. I want to be able to use the existing USB RAID which I have attached to my Airport Extreme. I’m hoping that they won’t expect me to buy a new device.

I also agree with wonky. If this device allowed me to put my iPhoto and iTunes libraries on one disk and then access them from all my computers, I’d be much happier (I’d be even happier if I could do it with my existing hardware, of course).

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:08:29 +0000

AirDisk was originally advertised that it would work with timemachine. There are a lot of people who want a working/stable airdisk, let alone timemachine support. If Apple doesn’t support what it advertised I think we can foretell a class action lawsuit.

By: wonky

wonky — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:24:36 +0000

It is a nice idea, but I would have preferred a more media based nas type device so that it could share with other stuff like consoles and music players etc.
I built a nas system for £150 and it does almost everything I need. I would have expected some sort of imedia hub by now.

By: Eric Burns

Eric Burns — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:50:11 +0000

Having just recently picked up an 802.11n Airport Extreme base station, which I’ve added a good sized hard drive to, I find myself concerned that this means they won’t give this capacity to that device. I don’t need Time Capsule per se, but I want to use Time Machine with my freaking AirDisk. If they tell me I have to drop five hundred dollars on a new base station and hard drive to get it, I’ll be put out at best.