Dead Time Capsule Owners Encouraged to ‘Mourn’ on Memorial Register

Time Capsule, Apple’s wireless hard drive and full-featured 802.11n Wi-Fi base station with simultaneous dual-band support, seems to be quite the unreliable Mac accessory, according to owners of failed Time Capsules who’ve set up an online memorial called “The Apple Time Capsule Memorial Register.”

Those whose Time Capsule has died are told they’re going to feel much better once they mourn the death of the device, by registering their dead Time Capsule.

Your Apple Time Capsule has died. You are now faced with the difficult, but important, need to mourn.

To show that you’re not alone in this process, we’ve opened the Apple Time Capsule Memorial Register. Please take a moment and submit a few details of your beloved Time Capsule. You will instantly notice it will make you feel better but will also help others facing the same difficult period in their lives.

And hopefully, this register will also provide a reliable overview of the scale of the premature passing of Apple’s “server grade” backup solution.

Also revealed on timecapsuledead.org is that the average lifespan of Apple’s Time Capsule is of 17 months and two days. “The average lifespan shown here is calculated from the registered dead Time Capsules. We don't want to suggest that this lifespan figure is indicative for all Time Capsules. However, there is also no publicly available evidence that Time Capsules have a longer lifespan than these dead ones,” the register reveals.

Apple has recently introduced a new version of its wireless 802.11n router + NAS drive adding more storage capacity, while not increasing the price. Now available in a 2TB (terabytes) form for the price of $499, Time Capsule is touted by Apple as being the perfect companion for Time Machine (Apple's automatic backup solution for Mac OS X), enabling users to get the best possible experience out of wirelessly backing up their hard drive.