Apple Time Capsule MB276LL/A (AirPort Extreme Plus 500 GB Storage)
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Manufacturer: Apple ComputerFormat: CD
Platform: Mac
Model: MB276LL/A
Product features:
- A revolutionary backup device that works wirelessly with Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard
- Time Capsule can back up and store files for each Leopard-based Mac on your wireless network
- 500 GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA server-grade hard drive gives you all the capacity and safety you need
- More than just a wireless hard drive, Time Capsule is also a full-featured AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n technology
- Works with Mac and PC
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Apple Time Capsule MB276LL/A (AirPort Extreme Plus 500 GB Storage)
Customer Review: Works well with Time Machine - should be easy to partition
Summary: 4 Stars
I tried to set Time Capsule up quickly in my niece's dorm, but ran out of time. She called 1-800-my-apple and got the wireless router going, but not the printer. I came back a week later and got the printer and an external drive (via a USB hub) going through Time Capsule and Time Machine backing up to Time Capsule. It runs well. Do not hesitate to call Apple Care. Write down your passwords.
I saw that it was possible (using a disc image) to partition the Time Capsule into something other than one giant 500 GB drive. But I was concerned that nobody else would understand what I did, so I did not attempt it. But we are using the 500 GB drive just to back up a Mac Air (80 GB) and a WD Passport external hard drive (150 GB capacity, 30GB used so far), so there is going to be a lot of unused space on the Time Capsule drive for a long time. I guess better too much space than too little. It is an expensive but excellent way to back up a student's Mac Air and external drive.
I wish that Apple made it easy to partition the Time Capsule drive during the installation process.
The Time Capsule drive and the external hard drive attached to it show up under the name of the Time Capsule in the Finder panel on the left side of the screen (in Finder press Go/Computer to see them). They do not automatically appear as icons on the desktop like other drives plugged into the USB port (and, on other Macs, into the firewire ports). The drives do not appear in the panel, only the router name. When you click on the router name, the hard drives attached to the Time Capsule appear. I wish that those hard drives appeared under the router name, like subsidiaries of the router. I suppose that you could make an Alias (which I guess is like a Shortcut in Windows) to put an icon for the drive on the desktop, and I will try that next time I am in that dorm.
The instructions to the Time Capsule are basic. When they let you down, call Apple Care or go online, where there are many threads about the Time Capsule.
To get the printer going, I plugged the printer into the USB hub (that I ran to the USB port on the Time Capsule) and started the whole Time Capsule install process over. It is not a hassle, because the install program remembers all of your passwords and other inputs from the last time you used the install program. Then the printer worked. (Well, I had a hard time finding a driver for an HP LasetJet P1006, but the drive for another 1000 series seemed to work OK. This is after installing the CD that came with the new printer and also downloading a later driver (for OSX) from the HP website. Kinda frustrating...) After pressing Print, the basic HP LaserJet took more time to start printing over the Time Capsule than it took attached directly to the USB port of the Mac Air, but it was not a painfully long time. On the computer in System Preferences/Printers and Faxes you also have to install a new printer (the one attached via Time Capsule) (press the plus sign), even if the same physical printer was already installed when it was attached directly to the Mac Air USB port. You might keep the old printer in System Preferences in case you need to plug the printer back into the computer's USB port some day.
Postscript: Bought it in August '08. The hard drive in the 500GB Time Capsule died in January '09. No idea why. The "only" thing on it was the Time Capsule backup for a MacBook Air. When the hard drive died, the Time Capsule still worked as a wireless router for the internet and the printer. It lost track of the two USB drives chained to it through a non-powered hub. (FYI: One Western Digital MyBook USB 250 GB drive was powered, one WD 250 GB Passport was not powered on its own.) That meant no way to back up with Time Machine except through the one USB port on the Air (that this Time Capsule was used with). Spent 45 minutes or so with an increasingly cranky (but helpful) lady on the phone to AppleCare. Then she transferred me to a polite guy who quickly said the hard drive was almost certainly dead and made a Genius appointment for me. (Both spoke like they were in the USA.) Apple Genius in Pleasanton CA said it was only the second hard drive he had seen fail in a Time Capsule. He would have replaced it on the spot, but we needed the router and internet for school projects that MLK weekend and could not hook up to internet until Tues if we switched Time Capsules that day (due to a different MAC address in a new Time Capsule/router; the MAC address is the "Ethernet ID" number on the Time Capsule). Went to San Francisco Apple store 2 weeks later on Sat eve, they also confirmed the Time Capsule hard drive was dead, but said they would have to order a replacement, could not give a new one from the shelf. I told my sad story and begged and they kindly relented and swapped for a new one on the spot. My niece registered the new MAC address with UC Berkeley on Monday and set up the router on her own, with WEP encryption. We still need to set up the TimeMachine using the Time Capsule hard drive accessed wirelessly, the printer and the movie and music USB hard drives all accessed wirelessly via a USB hub hung off the USB port on the TimeCapsule. Niece loves using the Air unencumbered, but still having all those wireless resources in the dorm. It's a very cool setup when it works, which it did for a semester. The Time Capsule and external hard drives do not need to be visible, so it's not ugly. (They do need air circulation, and they get it on the floor beside the desk.)
August 2010: Still working well two years and two moves later.
Description of Apple Time Capsule MB276LL/A (AirPort Extreme Plus 500 GB Storage)
Introducing Time Capsule. Automatic wireless backup for your Mac. Time Capsule is a revolutionary backup device that works wirelessly with Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard. It automatically backs up everything, so you no longer have to worry about losing your digital life. Time Capsule is also a full-featured 802.11n Wi-Fi base station. Every computer in your house can work off a wireless network at blazing speeds. And they can back up wirelessly to the same Time Capsule.Digital Cameras & Photo Categories
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