I had a Time Capsule and the drive in it failed. It was one of the first. I got it replaced, but the it caused a huge problem as I was having problems with my (at the time) early Intel Macbook and the drive was making clicking and on the way out. I had everything I wanted backed up the capsule and when I went to connect it again when I had a new drive in the Macbook, it wouldn't work, drive was dead.

I've cloned PC drives before and basically gone to them when the original drive has caput and one failed as I was restoring to a new drive. The moral of this story is if you rely on a Time Capsule or any other singular disk backup you are a fool (as I was).

Plus Apple claimed that the Time Capsule uses 'Server Grade' disks. They don't..mine had a cheap Hitachi Deathstar just like you can get in PC World for £32.

Seems they were used in all models :

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/03 ... psule_hdd/

Ah the old deathstar drives

I read about the "Server grade" thing. I guess they could justify it due to the fact it was the disk they used in the Xserves. Yours is the first horror story I have heard about it though (not the first I've heard about the drive though - they're called Deathstars for a reason).

The term deathstar originates from when the disk were made by IBM. Hitachi took over there storage division in 2002. Since that time the term 'Deathstar' is a little innacurate and I should not have used it really ! Hitachi supposedly had the best reliability of any drive in the years 2004 and 2005. I personally think they should have dropped the term Deskstar really.

They do use Hitachi Deskstar drives in the X-Serve, originally in IDE guise. Curious as at the time ultra wide SCSI 320 was what Servers were using.

Sure, I take your point but I don't know of anyone who creates enough data in an hour that it would take more than an hour to back it up over wireless (if you see what I mean). In a commercial setting (design houses etc) then sure, but their machines are going to be on a wired network.

For the home consumer, I think Time Capsule is ideal.

@Paul:

Thanks for the heads-up. I didn't know they had made such changes to the Time Capsules.

iPhone 3G-S here I come.

Mark

Does anyone know where the "S" came into this? "Second"?

Peter.

Speed.

Mark

Strange how they have removed all details of the speed of the CPU on the tech specs on the Apple site.

I has a 120 S Skoda. Believe me when I tell you that the “S” did not stand for speed.

What will the Snow Leopard prices be here? £29? Or less?

It's the only way I'll be paying for it.

I believe it stood for "stir", because that's what you did with the gearstick.

Depending on how the summer goes, I think I'm looking OK for my Mac Pro

And there was me thinking is stood for “seats”!