I just replaced my Time Capsule’s 2TB Seagate drive with a 6TB Seagate and it was surprisingly about 1/4” thinner than the original. Thankfully I had a 2” x 2” x 1/4” piece of foam rubber which I wedged in beside the drive to take up the extra space and it fit nicely with just enough tension to keep the foam in place. I also used an old fashioned wooden pencil with a rubber eraser to guide and attach those 2 small connectors and it worked great. Thanks for this helpful video

You're a legend. Just revamped my old 2GB time capsule (that died) with a Seagate 4GB drive. Instructions and video were spot on. Thank you Very much! :)

Thanks for posting your video. I'm getting ready to upgrade my Time Capsule soon. I'll definitely watch out while working near the reset switch!

I love these videos! Great to have regular updates from you again, Tom. Looking forward to more! :D

Thank you for doing this! You really gave me the confidence to replace their hd!

My beer just hit the right temperature so I took one out of the fridge, sat down at the computer and opened up youtube. I thought "well, there might be _something_ new in my subscription feed". And sure enough. A new ~30 minute video with one of the few youtubers that can make me smile simply by rambling on about this and that. And you are tinkering with an Apple product. The sun is shining in through my pint, the window is slightly open to let some of that warm spring air in and I just don't think I could feel better this afternoon. Cheers! :)

Great video!!! I'd put off updating mine for 2Yrs and finally did it and it was relatively easy. Last cutting of rubber was difficult!

Kudos for your videos and many kudos for taking care of ESD !!! Thanks for sharing.

I can't wait for networking part 5!!!!!! Big fan of your videos.

This was a great video, I personally don't mind the jump cuts, it was a nice and detailed process. I love watching videos like this even when I don't have the featured hardware (and especially if it's an Apple product) because I feel like I can learn a lot out of it and who knows if I might get one of these in the future and run into similar problems... in any case, I'm glad it worked fine and that OS X was actually OS X lol

Great vid sir glad to see you back hope the fam is doing well.

Thank you for the lesson . Much appreciated

Thanks very much for this. My 4TB WD Red is doing its 9 hour erase and should be ready to rock when I wake up tomorrow morning. Next Guinness is on me... Cheers ✌️

Do you have a link to that screw driver set? I could of done with it when I installed an SSD in my 2014 Mac Mini. I had to buy the bits separately and had to use a Poundland screwdriver.

I was given two of these with failed 2 tb hard drives. I killed one taking it apart, tore the sata cable. The second went well, thanks to this video. I'll keep the first one for its power supply.

Sweet video Tom! Can't wait for Part 5!

Hard to imagine that the harddrive is a full size desktop drive rather than a laptop variant. Good job Tom.

The time capsules Apple make I find so much better than other NAS/Router solutions, i still use a pair of the old A1254 time capsule units, modified with a 4tb drive in each and replaced power supplies (the old psu's cant fire a 4tb drive up for some reason but the replacement ones can ), only ten quid for a psu for them, and i use one of them as my main router, it connects to my VDSL broadband via a separate ZYXEL vdsl modem , and since using the time capsule as a router aswell it just works flawlessly and . using the "back to my mac" functionality when i add my apple ID to the time capsule, i can access the hard drive on it anywhere, which proved useful when on holiday as could access my music library remotely (yes i have great upload speed luckily). Very solid units, and the first thing to go is the drive, mine came STOCK with WD Blue apple branded ones oddly. Looking forward to part 5 tom, if you ever wanna chat apple and networking stuff , you got me on fb :)

Can somebody confirm if I can upgrade it to 12 TB and which HDd internal drive u advise seegate or others For time capsule 3TB last generation Thanka

Great to see you back!

hello and great video, do you know how much better performance (if any) does the 5th gen have compared to the 1st gen? I am thinking about upgrading my 1st Gen (HDD replaced in 2011) before it dies. I do feel that the backups have become a bit slower overtime.

I always use the little Dixie paper drinking cups to store screws. I just plop the first round of screws into a cup, then stick an empty cup into that cup, rinse and repeat. That way, I can just work from the top down when re-assembling (and if you've ever tried to work on an old iBook, you need LOTS of screw holders.) And if the stack of cups for some reason gets knocked over, they should be packed enough that no screws go spilling out as long as there's at least one empty cup on top of the stack.

Nice video, wish i had seen this a few weeks ago as i attempted to fix my time capsule due to a fan problem only to break off the HDD connector from the Logic board gave it to a computer engineer only for him to try rip me off, now waiting for a new logic board which are a nightmare to get hold of .

Nice video instruction. Thanks for that. *** IMPORTANT *** The little connectors do NOT pop off sideways. Doing so they will damage.... Instead lift them a little to the top and then move sideways...

Nice video. Honestly repairing that reset button should be a piece of cake, even though I'm bad at soldering I would have no problem doing that. You should do it as soon as possible before you accidentally lose those parts.

so happy to see you back love the channel

Cool video mate... be careful next time with tiny wires/tiny circuits... I once dropped the tip of a screw driver in a brand new motherboard and spent roughly 4 hours with my dad repairing a snapped connection on the MB. Lucily he's good at that and managed to make a 0.5mm solder on the incomplete circuit. Saved the MB.

30k, congrats Tom!!!

what is the maximum size of hdd that will fit into the machine?.Will an SSD work if connected?.

I have been wondering about doing this with my own time capsule not because the drive is dead, but because I want to increase the capacity and like the idea of it fitting in a nice compact Apple Time Capsule. That said, with minimal airflow inside of one of these things, I am concerned about the additional heat a larger capacity drive would create and how that would impact the reliability and longevity of the new drive. Hmmm...wish I could at least measure the temperature inside one of these things somehow...

I’d been looking into buying one but due to lack of income(16 no license and no job yet) I’ve been holding back. I’m using a Mac mini right now and I love it, I’ve set up an ftp server and installed a open source operating system on a raspberry pi in my family room. I can watch any season of tv shows I have in any room on any computer/phone. I also have sight issues too(born with only one eye) but it never stops me. Keep up the great content

How is your Hackintosh doing? And do you recommend the 2015 macbook air or the 2012 or 2013 macbook pro

I know this was 2 years ago but thank you for the information the video helped me help a client...

Hey, would an SSD in one of those would be clever, indeed I find the backup to be very very slow ... The time capsule is not writing to the disk all day, so it should be ok, am I right ?

So are you now using the time capsule as only an external hard drive and not as a base station? how do you turn the base station off?

Awesome video! Thank you!

The video is very well done. I use SuperDuper and I am very satisfied with the fact that you can boot the system from the external hard drive and it has USB3 which your device is not. But it's ok. Respect

Did you replace that 3 tb drive with an ssd or stick drive ?

Tom what a fantastic video, did you say you are going to use the Time Capsule as a router? If so Openreach supply a Modem (well 2 versions), which depending which cabinet you have depends which one you use. One's Huawei and the other ECI. Plusnet will allow you to use another device with the connection. Swapping out the Hub should be easy...

Is it possible to find conversion hardware and install an 2.5" SSD in this? Anything difficult with the soft-firmware set up?

The ice cube tray is a very smart idea 😀

can u help me . Mine is not booting up, green led is not showing. But when connected to power hardisk is moving.

That was very helpful! thank you

Hey, I have a Time Capsule 3 TB (802.11ac), recently I have problems with backing up one MBPretina 13 ", 2015, 500 GB, can it mean the end of the disk ?? and is it possible to change the disk in TC to a larger one, 4 or 6 TB ?? If so, what kind of regards, Martin

Can you replace the drive by a SSD instead for better performance?

Cool video Tom!

You still have the Mac Pro Towers in Colors! I have one of those still it stopped working.

Hi ,i have one tower only wifi Can put hdd inside ? Have all cable to connect one hdd ?

I use my MacOS server (Mac Pro) for time machine... it's pretty nice, you could do it on your Mac Mini I think

@25:49 You can drag the menu items into any order you want, including the headings.

I got my time capsule today i never use it before and i got 2 other airport exstreme and 3 smaler one but any way i saw on your mac screen you had icons showing your harddrives is that from backup or is it from time caupsel ? I have no enter network every time i want to se my harddrives and that is abit boring i would like a icon showing my hraddrive/harddrives how did you do that?.....sorry for bad speling i am from sweden....Thank you

00:25:34 Pnhub1 is back again :)

Well done my friend 👍👍

Awesome repair (hard drive swap)

At 6:47 what keyboard shortcut did you use to eject the drive?

Where did you get that screwdriver kit?

I have tried seriously to use Apple’s Time Capsule with 3Tbyte drive for three years, and it has been a nightmare. When it’s filled up with about 2,5 Tbyte, it just stop making automatic backups, gives a meaningless error message and stops working. I have set it to delete old backups if necessary, but this feature doesn’t work! And the worst is that I can no longer access my previous backups! They have all disappeared. The only option is to erase the disc and start over. - When I switched to a new iMac a year ago, Apple Support tried to assist me because their software didn’t work as expected. It took me eight full days to restore my backup (with the MacOS with settings, software etc), and the result was that a random selection of files had been restored. Most programs did not work, lots of important files had not been copied and the restore process was a giant failure. Apple Support had no explanation or suggestions, and I understood that they are not proud of this product. Their last words were: «But it’s nice when it does work!» If you have few programs and not too many files (probably less than 1 Tbyte), you may have luck with Apple’s software and the Time Capsule, but my best advice is not to use Apple’s solution as your main backup!

The video sound is pretty good, beyond my imagination

Please, for the life of me, *Get rid of those WD green drives* The modern day equivalent of the Quantum Fireball. I have had so many of them have head crashes. Anyways, seeing the inside of one of those inside was cool though. Keep up the good work

I think you should replace it with a SSD (1.8 TB or 3.84 TB Seagate Ironwolf SSD).

Great video!

If you're going to keep this up, you might thing about investing in a COMPRESSOR. THAT THING NEEDS A BLOW JOB ....GREAT VID !!

You're using the wrong side of the ESD mat :) I'ts also a good idea to connect the crocodile clip to a clean and not annodized earted piece.

Why did you change it to another HDD? Why did you not use a SSD?

Great vid!

Will WD60PURZ 6TB hard Drive work?.

Thought you were building a Pfsense router? Now you are going to use Crapple networking?

do you need the ac standard??

yay another video networking

Excellent!!!! another video woooohoooo!!! :)

these small connectors you can push back with the back of the pencil eraser, it took me just some seconds. :-)

Is the colour coding for hard drives just a Western Digital thing, or is it an industry standard?

can airport time capsule use ssd?

If I have an AirPort Extreme cane I just pop in a HDD?

Format hdd?

could you link where you got that screwdriver set please.

luv your channel

thanks dude! shove it in there!

Copying one file to a new drive is hardly enough of a test of if a new hard drive is going to work properly. I am a bit perplexed as to why you did not use any better solution (there are plenty of free software to check hard drives), especially since this is a backup drive. ANYWAY, good video as always. :) I just wish you would make more videos :)

One of the first. I have a 2011 model. But I'm selling it I don't really need It. Nice video Tom I love your videos been watching since 2014.

Why erase it, if it's new?

Bro your camera angle at 16:52 where your hand completely blocks what you're doing on the drive . Move your cam or your body / work angle.

I just came across your video because my time capsule hard drive just failed it keeps dropping off talk to Apple found out they’re no longer made repaired or serviced anything with my hard drive keep dropping off the tech-support they still provide said that it’s probably not a hard drive issue it’s a software issue well if it wasn’t that I was going to ask you for your Address and see if you wouldn’t swap out a hard drive for me you ever thought of doing a low profile one.

place camera to let us see what you are doing. Thanks

ahhhhhhh another video!

I hope you get a new camera / recording device that allows you to record without losing power... and do time lapse on the tedious but still useful parts of the repair, like trimming the rubber dampers, and reassembling the drive. Sigh.

Yay he’s back

Was thinking about opening mine but naaah, changed my mind.

LOL - swapping a Seagate with a Western Digital toilet guarantees you'll be changing it again really soon!

the red wd drives are great

hi tom!

Hey look it’s a KZfaq comment section without awful hate and firsts!!

your using a mac os virtual machine, inside mac os, why?

250k hard drive? What’s the point of that?

6:04 ghost orb on your imac

Oh god Sorry for asking but how old are you? :)

Your square cylinder is parallelepiped.

Ah, Seagate, there is your problem.

16:44 FINALLY! I'm Tidying IMNC HQ LOL

What a nasty product. I would give this a 4 out of 10 for servicing. I would never buy such a product, awful, but you do a nice job explaining.