The news was first reported by the German data recovery company Datenrettung Berlin via Golem. These drives are now suffering from an apparent design flaw that is leading to abnormally high failure rates, according to Datenrettung:. The parking ramp of this hard drive consists of two different materials. Sooner or later, the parking ramp will break on this hard drive model, installed in a rather poorly ventilated Time Capsule.
To use Time Machine to make a backup of your Mac, you need one of these types of storage devices:. If the disk isn't using the correct format, Time Machine will prompt you to erase it.
For details, check the documentation for your NAS device. To use another Mac on your network as a Time Machine backup destination, complete these steps on the other Mac:.
This column was prompted by Macworld reader Neil, who relies on a Time Capsule at his small business, and has an expanding workforce.
My transition advice would be to move away from Time Capsule and switch to Time Machine volumes attached to Mac desktops already on the network. First, you can add as many volumes as you need, distributing backups among multiple desktop machines. This port can be used to host a printer or an external storage device to supplement the Time Capsule's internal drive.
It can also be used to archive the content stored on the internal drive to an external one, for data safety. And finally, I'm also a little surprised and disappointed that there's no support for AirPlay, which is available in the AirPort Express that came out last year.
Similar to the previous generation, the new Time Capsule is completely closed in. There's no way to open its casing to replace or service the internal drive on the inside, which, by the way, is a 3. The fact that it uses a 3. The device requires AirPort Utility, available as both a desktop software application Windows and Mac and a mobile app iOS for its initial setup and ongoing management. Using this software, the device can be quickly set up in just a few simple steps.
This is mostly because the networking device is rigid and relatively lacking in terms of what it has to offer. Seamless combination: A Wi-Fi router and a network storage server At its core, the Time Capsule is a true dual-band router, offering Wi-Fi coverage on both 2. This means it supports all existing Wi-Fi clients, regardless of their standards and platforms. As a high-end product, the new networking device supports the current top tier three-stream of the new For existing Wireless-N Note that these are the ceiling speeds of the respective standards.
In real-world use, the actual sustained Wi-Fi speeds fluctuate a great deal and are generally much lower than the cap speeds. Nonetheless, the support for higher tiers always means faster speeds.
Read more about Wi-Fi standards here. In addition, the Time Capsule also comes with internal storage that can be used to host Time Machine backup files or as a shared folder for connected devices. That said, the device can work both as a Wi-Fi router and a NAS server simultaneously, and for the most part it works well.
Unfortunately, it's very limited in terms of features and customization in either of those roles. A powerful but rigid dual-band Wi-Fi router As a Wi-Fi router, the Time Capsule is fixed in what it can do, and it lacks certain customization options that are available in almost all other routers on the market -- even those costing just half its price.
For example, guest networking -- a feature that allows for creating an isolated Wi-Fi network for guests -- is available only on the 2. You can reserve IP addresses for connected clients so that they have the same IP each time they are connected , but this process is very complicated and involves typing in the client's MAC address. It would be much easier to be able to quickly add a connected client to this list. This is similar to the process required when you want to control the access of a client.
Again you have to type in its MAC address, which is generally difficult to find. There's no way to set up Web filtering, in case you want to block a certain Web sites or keywords. You can't customize QoS or firewall services, either, and this means it's not possible to manually prioritize Internet traffic for certain applications, such as media streaming or online gaming. Overall, if you simply want to share data, back up using Time Machine, and access the Internet, as a router the new AirPort Time Capsule works well.
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