Are these upgradeable? Any idea whether you'll be able to upgrade the harddrive inside of these time capsules?
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Aside from cost considerations, why would you want to do that? If there is one thing I've learned, it is always better to go big when it comes to HDs. 1 T might seem like a lot now, but I bet you'd be suprised how fast you fill it up. I'm wondering if there is a 3rd party alternative that costs less...
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Not out of the box...the backup features the Time Capsule uses are built into the Mac OS X software. This link might help explain it better than I could:https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5229376
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The company has been out of business since December of 2010, and I would highly doubt that anyone still has files from back then. I've scoured the internet for anything related to firmware upgrades and I don't see any publications or even announcements for a firmware update. I just figured that was one of the downfalls of this frame. About your only option is to manually change the names of the files on your memory card and shuffle them that way.
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These laptops are very upgrade friendly. What I would do is just but a external hard drive case for 30 bucks.
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I am also looking for the memory upgrade. If someone who has done this could post details, I would be eternally grateful! Not a member of the geek sqad so I am not sure how to go about it - is there a specific type to buy and how do you instal it?
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You can't update on OS-X. I use them every day and found no issues with them straight out of the box.
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You have to buy the hard drives separately. If you want to have anything but a paperweight.
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There isn't a hard drive. It's a SDD. You ca check Crucial.com, they have a scan tool that will evaluate your machine and recommend upgrades.
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Yes, it is a msata SSD and can be upgraded. You can Google it or go to YouTube and there are videos in how to do it.
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I don't know if you can. If you've had it for some time and it died then it may not be worth trying. Mine died at about the 1 1/2 year point I think it was. I went out and bought another one. My only though is perhaps to hook it up to a regular computer, see if it recognizes the drive and play around from there. I would be hesitant to use it for too long if you can manage to reform it. When it does you get little warning and you lose all the recordings on it.
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I use the drive via my time capsule usb. Works great. I formatted the drive when it was brand new.
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Yes, I have. There is no problem doing this as these drives are generic. However, the company I bought it from sent me one which appeared new (with new packaging) but tested as having thousands of hours of use on it. The test said it was working just fine but it wasn't a new device. I did not pursue the matter further as I did not intend to put this computer into daily use and it was not worth the hassle.
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Size and capabilities. The newer time capsule is square shaped (smaller square footprint) and taller (6.6") and has 802.11ac capabilities. The later significantly improves your ability to network with media devices wirelessly. I know there are other improvements, but I haven't really to me they are less significant. I have a Generation (Gen) 1 and a Gen 3??? air capsule. My sister has the latest Gen, but really doesn't have any other 802.11ac devices that will communicate, so that nice feature is unused. My take is that until I have a smart TV, smart phone, etc. that will network with these 802.11ac, I'm in no hurry to invest in the technology, additionally I know my old devices are easy to repair and upgrade. I upgraded my Gen 1 air capsule to a 3TB drive last year.
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Go to their website. They have setups to build your own... this one is already setup. And yes, I believe they are replaceable. But why buy this model to just replace with bigger drives when they already sell 1, bigger drives and 2, setups to build your own...
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I opened mine up to check. Hard drive and memory are upgradeable but CPU and graphics card are not. By the time the accessories that are needed to actually use this are available, this will be obsolete.
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If you have not filled up your 500 gb then you do not anything this big. A 1 or 3 TB Time Capsule work just fine. I have a 12 TB media library and these for great for that.
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I opened mine up after both of them died. They had old used drives from 2007 in them. So it's potluck if you get one you can depend on. I bought these thinking I was getting new stuff. They don't make it easy to crack open to find out the truth. They were Seagate & WD drives from 2007 so are good brands. But being used they could have been abused, or well used. I could have got 2007 drives for almost nothing if that's what I wanted.