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Apple's Time Capsule eats data
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Apple's Time Capsule eats data

by Nick Farrell  on Oct 16, 2009
Tags: apple
"Nick Farrell wrote: It is possible to bring a Time Capsule back from the dead using an external power supply but this might be a little too complicated for the average Machead. Besides, this ..."
 
Apple's build quality goes from strength to strength with users of its expensive Time Capsule product complaining that it bricks their hard-drives.

The Apple Time Capsule Memorial Register, which went live over weekend, has already logged 294 dead devices that have been killed by Apple's Time Capsule.

The site assures those who have lost a hard-drive to Apple's superior build quality that they are not alone.

"Please take a moment and submit a few details of your beloved Time Capsule. You will instantly notice it will make you feel better, but will also help others facing the same difficult period in their lives," the site consoles.

Apparently the average life expectancy of a Time Capsule is 18 months, which makes it a definite chocolate teapot when comes to backup. Still Apple is not really interested in gear that is more than a year old as it feels that people should be buying its too cool expensive gear every year.

Apple has been following its normal policy of denying that any problem exists, despite floods of complaints on various bulletin boards.

Timecapsuledead.org was created by a Mac user who goes by the moniker "zmippie" on Apple's support forum.

Current theories are that Time Capsule's high quality, made in China and blessed by Steve, power supplies are giving up the ghost, or internal connections in the power supplies are failing.

It is possible to bring a Time Capsule back from the dead using an external power supply but this might be a little too complicated for the average Machead. Besides, this workaround has not been blessed by Steve Jobs.

 

 

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Comments: 2
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propagandhi
Oct 16, 2009 7:15 PM
Wow, you can almost feel the excitement as you dribble all over your keyboard like you've been waiting for this moment your whole life. High quality writing at it's best. At least it's obvious you're an apple hater, that much you certainly don't try to hide. But making out that mac users are morons actually shows that that title belongs to you. As for the actual fault, it really does suck and apple should fix it and replace or recall the units. I've got several that I am now worried about out there at various sites. None have failed yet but I am not looking forward to it if they do. However I am sure I can find a 'machead' who knows a hell of a lot more than you do to help me out.


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Apple's Time Capsule eats data?
Apple's build quality goes from strength to strength with users of its expensive Time Capsule product complaining that it bricks their hard-drives.

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Slatts
Oct 16, 2009 9:22 PM
Nick Farrell wrote:
It is possible to bring a Time Capsule back from the dead using an external power supply but this might be a little too complicated for the average Machead. Besides, this workaround has not been blessed by Steve Jobs.

and some other stuff


Nick, baiting mac people is a bit like dynamiting fish in an aquarium.
It makes a big splash, attracts lots of attention and blood and guts fly everywhere.
Then some poor bastard has to clean up the mess.

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