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March 3, 2008

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The Time Capsule gets taken apart

Posted Mar. 3, ’08, 12:00 PM PT by Aayush Arya
Category | Hardware » Accessories

Time Capsule internalsIf you thought the Time Capsule would escape the stripping treatment by sheer virtue of its non-hotness, you, my dear friend, were mistaken. Sure, unlike the MacBook Air, there isn’t much to see in there, but we geeks aren’t too fussy. As long as it involves circuits, wires and screws, we’re onboard.

This take apart is brought to you by Flickr user nakedmac and reveals/confirms three things for us: (a) Time Capsule is equipped with a fan to help keep the temperatures low; (b) It uses the same Hitachi Deskstar drives that Apple outfits its Xserve line with; and (c) Some people just don’t care about the warranty as long as they are the first on the block to upload pictures of their newest gadgets torn down to the barest essentials.

That’s pretty much it, but if you’re anywhere as crazy about the internals of Apple’s shiny gizmos as we are, this one probably made your day. We just hope we don’t hear reports a few days from now that claim to be able to reconstruct the same product at a lower price because Apple has used way too many wires in this one. It’s only funny the first time, you see.

[via Gizmodo]


2 Comments

Chris Johnson said:

I remember something about Apple wanting "server-quality" drives to be used for Time Machine remote backups because an arcane (to me) hard drive state or command that only server-rated drives have.

Something about write states or verification bits or whatever.

The fact that this torn-apart unit uses the same Hitachi mechanism used in Xserves brought this to mind.

Anyone remember this? It was also part of the justification for not supporting Ye Olde Hard Drive Guy's drive via an AP Extreme base-station using Time Machine, even though that was touted before Leopard was released...

-C


March 3, 2008 4:01 PM
Dave-O said:

It was a buffer flush instruction to make sure the data was written not just to the drive's cache but to its platters.

Of course, you can plug a USB drive into Time Capsule and do Time Machine backups, so that argument has been blown out of the water.

March 3, 2008 8:14 PM

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