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Apple has quietly doubled the capacity of its Time Capsule wireless-link backup disk appliance, from one to two terabytes. Time Capsule is a networked hard drive, a 7200rpm SATA drive, in a typically Apple-style minimalistic curved white box, along with a dual-band - 2.4GHz and 5GHz - 802.11n Wi-Fi base station, which also …
@DZ-Jay My cat loves my Time Capsule too! :-) And my media player (Mac Mini).
And to keep this on topic, the Time Capsule does precisely what it says on the tin. I can't recall precisely when I bought it, but I'd guess it was last summer.
I can heartily recommend TimeMachineEditor ( http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/ ) so that Time Machine only runs backups twice a day, as I found every hour excessive.
Err, well the main point of it is that it's a backup.... if you're not backing up at the moment, you have precisely no redundancy, if you backup to a TM, you have a complete backup. It's unlikely (but possible and statistically little different) that both devices would fail at once... however, even with RAID both discs in that could fail at the same time - again, somewhat unlikely but still entirely possible.
For me it's great and as above, hasn't missed a beat at all.
@fifi agreed that its not more resilient and I don't own a time capsule, however I use timemachine on a firewire hd with my mbp and its proved to be a lifesaver on more than one occasion when I've either accidentally deleted some work or needed to roll back and it wasn't in vcs.
Having some form of backup is better than none, although raid is obviously far far better.
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