Apple Time Capsule MB277LL/A (AirPort Extreme Plus 1 TB Storage)
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Customer Review: Lifesaver
Summary: 5 Stars
After five years of working exclusively on Mac laptops and never once backing up, this product arrived to silently inform me that I was out of excuses for this irresponsible lifestyle!
I bought the 1TB version and did have some issues getting it going (absurdly long "preparing backup" times) and returned it for a much more compliant unit. Finally got a full backup (took 20 hours wirelessly) and several incrementals done----and a week later, my Macbook crashed completely! Received a replacement computer, and was able to restore everything from my TC backups, effortlessly and perfectly (took 3 hours via ethernet). In fact Time Machine recreated my previous work environment so precisely it was almost creepy! If it wasn't for TC my career---and to some degree my life---would be a shambles right now.
Sad truth: Laptops fail, even Apple ones. Happy truth: Time Capsule can save your bacon. As the other reviewers have said, just do it. You're out of excuses not to.
Customer Review: I liked my 500gig model so well i got the 1TB model as a shared drive
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been using Time Machine since I upgraded to Leopard. While Time Machine is great for backing up my iMac, its a pain to have to hook up my Mac Book Pro and new Mac Book Air to an external hard drive. The Time Capsule is great for that. So long as my laptop is open and running, a backup can happen.
Make sure you remember to do your first backup using ethernet. Otherwise it is going to be slow. Apple does not want to bog down your network with backups, so when you are backing up wirelessly, it will intentionally throttle the connection sped.
This device also functions as a wireless router. I was able to remove my pervious Air Port Extreme from the network. The terabyte model is nice because you are able to share one large drive and backup several smaller computers My iMac and two laptops all backup just fine.
Customer Review: Amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
I was reading a lot of reviews online before buying this Time Capsule. On the Apple site they have quite a few negative reviews, but I decided to give a try and buy here on Amazon, since you can return with no problem (not like Apple, sometimes gives u a hard time for returning items). Now about the product. I love it, I love it I love it. My Time Machine makes automatic backups couple times a day to the time capsule. It's fast and I do not need to worry about it. Also, I just recently changed the PowerBook to MacBookPro. The Migration Assistant on new Mac helped to move all applications and user account to new MacBookPro (overnight, direct ethernet connection with ethernet cable) from my Time Capsule. It works with no problem. I truly recommend to buy one, especially for those who can not afford loosing data and down time.Customer Review: Go Mac and never go back
Summary: 5 Stars
I just bought the TB time capsule for my office. I am an attorney and needed a way for all the computers in my office to share files, and print to the same printer reliably. I tried setting up my Macbook to share files with my PC but it rarely worked. Decided to scrap the PC bought an IMAC and the time capsule as well as another Macbook, and everything just works. I just plugged everything in and with about 2 seconds worth of setup all 3 computers share files with each other, all access the timecapsule and all print to the same main printer. Plus the internet speed is awesome and the backup of each computer is great. It is so great to buy a product that is everything it claims to be. The adds are true Apple just works, and Leopard is fantastic. I will never waste time with a PC again.......Customer Review: Pretty Good actually
Summary: 5 Stars
It is a pretty awesome device. We have 2 macbooks(air/pro) and 5 Windows/linux based laptops in our house. we did the first backup through the ethernet(for the macs). Note that the time machine does incremental backups, which means it only records the "Changes" and hence, subsequent backups are pretty good.I use a linksys 802.11n router and my Time Capsule is connected to the linksys via Ethernet. No complaints so far. Could it have been faster, the answer is yes, but then I am not backing up gigabytes of data every day.
For the PCs, I used the only USB port available to hook up an external HDD(used by my windows/linux laptops) and am continuing to backup into the same location (using 3rd party software of course).