All about Time Capsule from Apple

Obviously the Time Capsule hardware itself isn’t all that interesting — after all, it’s basically just an Airport Extreme with a hard drive inside. It’s quiet, but definitely not silent. It does have a fan that vents out the bottom, but overall it gets and stays pretty warm — almost hot, even.


Using Time Machine is just the same as if you were using a local drive, just a little slower depending on how fast your connection is. Over 802.11n WiFi the hit was only slightly noticeable while searching, and almost non-existent over Ethernet, large transfers excepted. There is one potentially troublesome issue, however: since OS X doesn’t appear to prioritize network activity out of the box, Time Machine absolutely slams your network interface when it starts up. Although browsing and other casual activities are relatively unaffected, there is definitely a noticeable impact. Just to isolate what we’re talking about, this is how fast our Ethernet-connected iMac was able to send data over the LAN when it was in the middle of its initial 10MB/s backup

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