Smalldog Time Capsule... good deal?

[Sam3]

Smalldog has the 500 gig Time Capsule for $139. It seems like a good deal.

Is it?

I'd probably hang a 1.5 TB drive off of it as an additional backup drive.

[space-time]

it was 179 a few weeks ago and I asked and they showed me this site

http://www.timecapsuledead.org/

scared me away and now I have a dual-band airport extreme on the way from amazon. At least the HD is mine if the base unit dies...

[space-time]

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...msg-828648

[JEBB]

Can you do the same thing with an AEBS with an attached HD?

[C(-)ris]

space-time wrote:
it was 179 a few weeks ago and I asked and they showed me this site

http://www.timecapsuledead.org/

scared me away and now I have a dual-band airport extreme on the way from amazon. At least the HD is mine if the base unit dies...

I wouldn't worry about that, the total list of SNs represents less than .01% of all the Basestaions sold. You could make a site like that for iPods and there would be millions of SNs. Would that stop you from buying an iPod?

[space-time]

C(-)ris wrote:
[quote=space-time]
it was 179 a few weeks ago and I asked and they showed me this site

http://www.timecapsuledead.org/

scared me away and now I have a dual-band airport extreme on the way from amazon. At least the HD is mine if the base unit dies...

I wouldn't worry about that, the total list of SNs represents less than .01% of all the Basestaions sold. You could make a site like that for iPods and there would be millions of SNs. Would that stop you from buying an iPod?
I don't think Apple sold "millions" of these time capsules. yes, they sell many millions of iPods, and millions of Macs, but not everyone buying a Mac is buying an Apple base station, and even fewer are buying the time capsule, and even fewer are reporting this to that site. It seems to be a design issue where the time capsule gets to hot. I decided to get a separate base station and plug in my own hard drive, this way if the base station dies I still have the USB hard drive.

[C(-)ris]

I have only seen 1 dead Time Capsule in the last year and a half, it was bad out of the box. I've sent up somewhere around a hundred of them and never once had a client come back and say it died. I've had some where their time machine backups got out of sync and had to be redone, but never had one die.

My guess would be that the Time Capsule is no more likely to die than your external hard drive or basestation separately.

[space-time]

thanks for the clarification

[C(-)ris]

Once you add a Hard drive with moving parts to the mix with a router your failure rate goes through the roof. Hard drives die, it is a fact of life. The mean lifetime of a router is much longer than that of a hard drive.