So, it looks like Apple mistakenly allowed the ability for Airport Extreme’s to use Airdisks as Time Machine locations. I guessed as much when I couldn’t get it to work for me and others have reported rubbish performance or failed backups.

“What a “lack of support” means is that if you attempt to use an 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station for Time Machine backup, you won’t get any help from Apple’s technical support, something that readers have already told me”.

Check out more at tidbits website.

Looks like it was right for me to order that Time Capsule then!

written by Mike Bradbrook \\ tags: Airdisk, Airport Extreme, Time Machine

Victor Cajiao has posted that it doesn’t appear that Apple’s Time Capsule is using Server-Grade hard drives. It appears that the 1 TB option contains an Hitachi Deskstar 7K100.

The manufacturer’s data sheet for the drive doesn’t refer to having a Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) - something that you would expect to be proudly referred to if the drive was indeed server-grade.

Can anyone add some light on this? Is Steve Jobs guilty of false advertising?

written by Mike Bradbrook \\ tags: Time Capsule

nakedmac recently posted these photos of a de-constructed Time Capsule. I was waiting for photos like this to come out… and sure enough here they are!

I found it very interesting to find that there IS a fan to cool down the unit.

Be sure to check out these photos in nakdemac’s flickr. Very interesting stuff indeed.

Question to all of you out there… What would you like to see ME de-construct!? :) 

written by Mr. Mayor \\ tags: Time Capsule