11 May 2010

Apple Time Capsule Fail

When the Apple announced the Time Capsule I thought it was great, all the benefit of Time Machine, without having to have a hard disk attached to your Mac, so I bought one.

Since then it had been sat in my living room quietly(ish) backing up my Mac, storing photos and connecting wifi devices to my network, until I noticed that my iPhone wasn't connecting to the wifi and my Mac had connected to a different network, further investigation showed that the Time Capsule was indeed dead. A quick Google brought me to The Time Capsule Memorial Register, it appeared that I wasn't the only one left with a dead Time Capsule. Further searching uncovered that Apple are aware of this issue and were replacing faulty units. I wasn't holding my breath when I called Apple Care, as my Time Capsule was well out of warrenty, but after a quick chat with a nice Irish guy at Apple I now have a "new" Time Capsule heading over to me FOC!

Now all I need to do is see if I can recover my back ups from the old Time Capsule hard drive...