![]() ![]() If you cannot find a drive that is formatted this way, you can usually use Disk Utility on your Mac to format the hard drive, but things would be a lot simpler and faster if the drive is already formatted for Mac as mentioned above. Look for a drive that is formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled). A drive that is advertised as "works with both PC and Mac" is not what you want. Look for a USB drive that has been formatted for Mac. You will need a USB drive that is at least as large as the drive on the Time Capsule, so the drive will probably need to be at least 2 TB and as much as 3TB. In other words, the hard drive on the Time Capsule must be working correctly for the Archive process to function. No harm in trying, but keep your expectations very low. If the hard drive has failed.very likely.then you won't be able to use the Archive function in AirPort Utility. Unfortunately, this is Apple's way of saying that the hard drive inside the Time Capsule has failed. The time capsule shows disk needs repair on airport utility The only possible issue I suspect is I'm using my work computer with a work profile since I don't have an ethernet port available on my personal MacBook Pro so maybe permissions are an issue? I would expect it to explicitly state that to be an issue if that is the case. The Time Capsule says 34.39GB available of 2TB and the external TB only has 852.5 MB used of the 2TB so space should not be the issue. I have formatted my 2TB external drive (Samsung T7 ) as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" as seen below Īnd no matter how I format the external HD it is not recognized by AirPort Utility. I open Airport Utility, select the Time Capsule > Disks and select "Archive Disk" but the available options are greyed out and displays "No AirPort disks available" I have a 2TB Time Capsule (Model A1409) that is full of backups and I am in the process of archiving everything using Airport Utility. Unable to archive Time Capsule using Airport Utility, "No AirPort disks available" Hello again, I've been keeping important files there since 2015, and I hope I didn't lost them bc I don't have an extra copy of most archives. Isn't there a way to access this data just using my computer?Īs I said, I always used the TC as a router and as an external storage, never connected it to my old macbook for backups and etc. I noticed too that the Airport Utility has an option to move all my data to an USB storage, but obv I don't have any device close to 1.2TB. But accessing the device through Airport Utility, it says that just 0.6TB of 1.8TB is available, so it means that my archives are still in there somehow, right? Installed it the same way I always did, the internet connection is working perfectly and I can even access the TC Disk in File Explorer, but it's empty, all my folders and archives seem to be gone. Recently I got a new computer and moved my TC to it. HD's are now mostly used for bulk storage of data.Can't access Time Capsule Disk's files in File Explorer (Win 10) Hello,įor years I've been using it as an external storage on WIN10, since I don't have a macbook anymore. Other vendors have also improved too with their quality! Today we use SSD's throughout our systems both laptop & desktop. In fact just a year later we encountered no SSD failures! We moved to Samsung and we continued to use them with I think just one failure in the last five years. Update: its five years later with this entry A lot has changed! SSD's are now 1000's of times better than what we were using back then. But, unlike desktops & laptops this data is not altered as often and better quality SSD's are used (more expensive) and use high speed inter-connections. ![]() ![]() Now in a data center using SSD's as a front end storage makes sense as the speed it offers across the servers has its advantages. If its in a desktop or NAS device that is not being moved about it a HD drive is still ideal. A HD over it's lifetime can be rewritten a lot more times, but the mechanics of the drive can fail. But, the point still remains SSD's do wear out. Granted these were early versions of SSD's & we are very hard on constant changing of data on these laptops so that could be a factor as well. I've now replaced a good dozen of SSD's which are just worn out this year. But even still, the amount of data on the device that is altered wears it. A device that is mobile like a laptop I do think it is a better fit. ![]() I'm not so sure if SSD's are more reliable in all cases. As to the question on reliability between a HD Vs SSD storage. ![]()
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