Apple introduces new 2TB Time Capsule, drops price of 1TB model

The UK prices blow once more.

You can get (I just have) a 4tb WD MyWorld Studio RAID 0/1 switchable drive for less money. Does all the interfaces too apart from networking.

Or for ~£300 you can get a ReadyNAS duo and populate it with a pair of 1Tb drives. The latest firmware is supposed to do TimeMachine backups though I haven't figures this one out yet.

Good news for some, but personally I'd have liked to see them keep the 500gig on at a lower price.

Per my response to an earlier comment, I've had a very good experience of the old 1TB unit at work. At home however I use lower end kit, and just don't need that much storage. A cheaper 500gig TC would have been a no-brainer for me but as it is Apple have kept the entry-level cost for these just out of reach for some users which is a shame.

YMMV.

We've been using one of the 1TB units as a small office router/print server/file server for a mixed OS X, Win XP and Vista network for almost 18 months with no faults or connection issues at all.

Obviously you should never rely on one piece of hardware entirely, and the TC is backed up regularly to an ordinary USB drive against the possibility of failure but to date we've had no problems at all.

Whatever your personal experience, it's not wise to blindly assert that everyone else will have the same. I wouldn't claim my hassle-free experience of the TC is universal, but to say they're all unreliable based on your experience of one unit is a bit daft.

Way tooo expensive! I would suggest you guys build a nice quadcore server with $500 rather than buy a TC! With a server like that, you can do more than just take backups......!

It STILL doesnt have QoS... waste of money if you plan on using it as a router.

does it have the ability to run b/g without slowing down n?

Does the router in the time capsule have exactly the same specs as the airport extreme (eg dual band, guest network, etc etc?)

I was thinking strongly about getting one of the 1TB models a few weeks ago when my Lacie external hard drive started crapping out - yes, it's expensive, but the idea of integrating my router with my backups and having network attached storage all in a Mac environment really got me interested. I didn't do it then because of the price tag but now I may just have to.

Hoorah. Just as I was about to go pick one up. I was gonna get a 1TB but now I have to choose between a cheaper 1TB or cough up the money for a 2TB.

Waiting for the UK store to be updated...

I currently have a 1.5 TB harddrive in a custom-built Atom-based server (running Ubuntu) connected to my Airport Extreme. If Apple added UPnP support (namely media sharing to Xbox 360), I would definitely upgrade to one of these.