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Apple Time Capsule: What's the biggest HDD that will fit on my Time Capsule?

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:47:48 -0700

Hi guys! Big fan of yours as you've saved my butt on a couple of occasions for my Macbook 13". I just did an HDD upgrade for my Macbook and was wondering if I could do the same for Time Capsule... and I can! Prior to entering to this task, I'd like to ask you:

What's the biggest HDD (2GB/4GB) that can fit inside the Time Machine as a replacement?

I'm looking for a 7200rpm or faster drive, which would you recommend.

The guide that's on the site talks about a hybrid because its silent. I don't want silent, I want fast and spacious.

As always, thanks for all your support! Great work on the disassemblies!!!

Fabio

⟐ Commented July 19, 2011 at 2:47 am -0700

Apple Time Capsule: What really different with the new Time Capsules & AirPort Extremes?

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:58:20 -0700

Hello,

Apple recently updated their Time Capsules and AirPort Extremes, with no official announcements as to what was updated even though their part numbers have changed.

This website did a quick teardown of the time capsule and they didn't find and changes to the hardware.

One can argue that the time capsules update was to go from 1TB & 2TB to 2TB & 3TB. But what was the reason behind the AirPort Extreme update??

IFixIt.com are you able to work your magic and dissect one?

Time Capsule:

Old (2TB): MC344LL/A

New (2TB): MD032LL/A

AirPort Extreme:

Old: MC340LL/A

New: MD031LL/A

⟐ Answered April 30, 2013 at 5:58 pm -0700

Apple Time Capsule: Where do I buy a new Power Supply unit?

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:48:11 -0700

Anyone who nows where to buy a new OEM Power Supply unit for a 1TB Time Capsule model A1355 from December 2009?

⟐ Answer edited April 8, 2013 at 12:48 am -0700

iMac Intel 20" EMC 2133 and 2210: Change HD with Time Capsuel on

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 05:29:53 -0700

Hello,

I have a dead Time Capsule 2 gen. with a 1TB HD. I would like to change my 320GB HD of my iMac with the one from the Time Capsule.

Does anyone knows if this Time Capsule HD is compatible with my iMac 20'' mid 2007?

Thanks to all for your help.

⟐ Commented June 24, 2012 at 5:29 am -0700

MacBook Pro 13'" 22 Unibody Mid 2010: New hard drive vs time machine!

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:53:52 -0700

Hi, I recently upgraded the hard drive for a 750G on a macbook pro. Every thing went smooth and worked perfect. Except for one detail. I cloned the old drive to the new one and took it from there. Everything worked fine, but when I plugged in the Time Machine, it recognised the new hard drive on the computer and it doesnt let me acces to all my previos backups! Instead, it wants to do the initial back up, like the one it does when you use it for the first time.

Does anyone know how can I "tell" my time machine to stop doing this and let me access to all my back ups??

Thanks

⟐ Answered September 27, 2012 at 7:53 pm -0700

Apple Time Capsule: 4TB HDD upgrade possible?

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:09:54 -0700

Hi,

Planning to buy a new TC, would really like to know if it can handle an internal 4TB HDD. If yes i would go for the much cheaper 2TB Version and upgade it myself, if not take the 3TB and leave it as is.

Help would be great,

Cheers

⟐ Answered December 23, 2012 at 2:09 pm -0700

Apple Time Capsule: My Time Capsule WiFi stops working intermittently?

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:44:53 -0700

My WiFi stops working, or only works when I stand next to the unit. If I unplug it and let it cool down It seems to work for a few days. Can I open it and replace the airport unit?

Thanks Bob the Blade

⟐ Answered February 25, 2013 at 6:44 pm -0700

Apple Time Capsule: TC won't boot after drive replacement

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 05:01:50 -0700

I have a 1TB Time Capsule model A1254. Not sure exactly how old it is, but likely 3+ years if not more. A year or so ago, the hard drive started to die -- I could hear clicking and noises from within the unit and the TC functionality itself became spotty.

Recently, I decided to dig the TC up and see if I could replace the hard drive to bring it back to life. I followed the excellent manual located here on iFixIt and replaced the drive with a 1.5TB Seagate model.

After replacing the drive and powering the TC, the front light lights green for a few seconds, the fan started to go, and then everything shuts down. It does this every time I try to plug it in. If I replace the old hard drive back in the TC, it boots up with an amber light (which is what it did before.)

Thinking that it might be the power draw from the new hard drive, I checked the power consumption specs. The old drive consumes .680A @ 5V and .850A @ 12V. The new drive consumes .720A @ 5V and .520A @ 12V. Power consumption shouldn't be the issue - the new drive consumes less @ 12V and only .04A more @ 5V.

Just for grins, I also tried a 2.5" laptop drive and it produced the same result - green light for a moment, then powered off. It can't be drawing more than the original 3.5" desktop drive.

Any other thoughts here on what this could be? Possible, I guess, that the power supply is simply dying as has been mentioned so often previously, but the unit powers up with an amber light with the old drive, so I don't think that's it.

Is there anything special I have to do to the new drive in order to get it to be recognized? I formatted it MacOS Journaled but that didn't produce any special results.

Thanks in advance.

⟐ Commented April 22, 2013 at 5:01 am -0700