At the beginning of last week we have spoken about the many cases from all over the world where the power supply of the Time Capsule died after approximately 18 months. Since then, several readers have come to tell us about the recent death of their devices. It seems a repeat of the story we have experienced with the Airport Express. On our forums, at least 3 readers saw their time capsule cease functioning. On the Apple forums, good number of people also lost their means of backing up.
All these products have two things in common. They are models 500 GB, and they were bought in March 2008. The agreement of these two points, especially the second makes us more than ever fear an epidemic. The first is also interesting to try to partly explain this problem. We also bought Time Capsule in March 2008. This is the one that has had the disk replaced with