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Is their a defective drive in my time capsule?

I am only getting maximum 27mbs write speeds and only 23 mbs write speeds through the drive in my time capsule. A WD green 3TB will get at least 147mbs. Most laptop rotaional drives will even get as much as 135mbs. Is thaeir a problem with the SATA controler is their a drive malfunction? Or is the new time capsule 802.11AC designed for networks running at speeds slower than a 802.11g? It just seems rather slow even for a backup, my WD 4TB external "MY book" usb 3.0 between 108-135mbs sustained read/ write, but i cannot conect it properly to the timecapsule for backup becasue it only has USB 2.0 also a technalogy well sutable for 802.11g. Let alone a firewire 400 or usb 3.0 is well sutable for 802.11n networks. My overall question is are they all built for computers in the early 1990's or is mine just defective? I don't know if i should have to return it because speed was not thought of when desiging this product/ cheap pre-mellnium parts where used in the making of this, or if i should exchange it for a properly manufacture product? Or is their going to be an update to the SATA controler to run properly. I just got the time capsule yesturday and i sware the macbook pro i purchased 3 years ago still with the original drive, runs over 5 times better than this, its hardly suitable even for a backup, let alone for a network storage solution for streaming media files to apple TV.


Please answer the question above first, if they are all this bad, than please answer the following. If i put a proper 2-3TB drive in this will it finbally get aproiate speeds or is the software/ hardware of this device limited? has anyone placed in a drive that can do 165mbs write/ read times (a good rotational drive built in the last 6 years drive will) did they get those speeds? or is the device itself have a faulty SATA conection/ controler as to not get anything faster than the 23mbs write speeds. or am i wrong completely, is there a 1980's untra wide scsi controler for the HDD, it would explain the speeds slower than 40mbs....

OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), The new time capsule w/ 802.11AC

Posted on Apr 13, 2014 4:27 PM

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Apr 14, 2014 9:50 AM in response to James Mauro

2.4 GHz UpDown Throughput Print Print Product Class:Rank $$ Throughput (Mbps) Apple AirPort Extreme (802.11ac) (A1521) AC1750:#6 $185 156.3 Apple AirPort Express [2012] (MC414LL/A) N600:#8 $93 83.1 Throughput As you can clearly see there should not be any bottle necks through my needs if the device preforms properly. In reality the problem with that test is the storage media used for transferring information.

Is their a defective drive in my time capsule?

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