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Re:Time Capsule for $25 (Using Raspbery Pi) by CrazedGeek on Friday November 30, 2012 @12:56PM (#4854419)
Where are you getting $170 for a 2TB disk? Amazon has 3TB disks for $130.
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Re:Time Capsule for $25 (Using Raspbery Pi) by bradleyland on Friday November 30, 2012 @03:09PM (#4855176)
This whole conversation is kind of strange, but let's play along anyway.

If you deal shop, you can get the price down:.

    [1] $40 Raspberry Pi - Model B, because that's all that's available (includes $5 shipping)
    [2] $10 Enclosure (some DIY required)
    [3] $116 WD 2TB Hard Drive (selected WD because that is [apparently] what Apple uses)
    Total: $166
That's an aggressive HD price, and remember, you need an external HDD. A lot of the pricing being thrown around here is for internal drives. Regular price on the drive I spec'd was $180. There are always deals to be had though. The price may be more depending on your timing.

The case I spec'd is extremely DIY as well. If you went with something nicer, you'd spend more as well. It's kind of hard to justify a crappy case when you're comparing to a Time Capsule.

So if you add in $20 for a HDD price not-so-on-sale and $10 for a nicer case (Adafruit is decent), you're looking at $196, which is edging up toward the cost of a Time Capsule, and that's not factoring in time for configuration.

The whole point here is that you don't do projects like this to save money. You do projects like this for the fun and learning experience, or to have greater control/flexibility. If you go in to this project to save money, then I think you're barking up the wrong tree.

1 - Pick a vendor any vendor (pricing is standard)

2 - http://blujay.com/item/Black-Electronic-Project-Box-100-x-60...

3 - http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-3-5-Inch-Internal-Desk...

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Re:Time Capsule for $25 (Using Raspbery Pi) by CrazedGeek on Friday November 30, 2012 @04:05PM (#4855440)
> The whole point here is that you don't do projects like this to save money. You do projects like this for the fun and learning experience, or to have greater control/flexibility. If you go in to this project to save money, then I think you're barking up the wrong tree.

That was where I was leading it, yeah. Attacking it on a price basis just seems weird to me.

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Re:Time Capsule for $25 (Using Raspbery Pi) by Samuel_Michon on Friday November 30, 2012 @07:32PM (#4856269)
"Attacking it on a price basis just seems weird to me."

The title of the article is "Time Capsule for $25", so apparently the author thought the price is the main selling point. The actual price is way higher, he set himself up for someone to point that out.

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Re:Time Capsule for $25 (Using Raspbery Pi) by Samuel_Michon on Friday November 30, 2012 @01:11PM (#4854505)
When Hardmac did a teardown of the latest Time Capsule, they found it has a Western Digital WD20EARS hard disk. [0]

That drive is listed as $169 MSRP at Amazon. [1]

[0] http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/25/updated-time-capsule-open...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Desktop-WD20EAR...

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Re:Time Capsule for $25 (Using Raspbery Pi) by jws on Friday November 30, 2012 @01:18PM (#4854548)
You might be seeing a premium price for discontinued hardware. The current lineup of WD Green 2TB drives are ~$100. There is no way for me to know if these are lower quality than the previous model or not.
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Re:Time Capsule for $25 (Using Raspbery Pi) by Samuel_Michon on Friday November 30, 2012 @02:02PM (#4854818)
Good point. I'm curious as to which HDD models Apple uses nowadays for their Time Capsule, that would allow for a better comparison. I couldn't find that information anywhere.

By the way, my first generation Time Capsule has a 500GB Seagate Barracuda ES, which used to retail for over $300.

http://goo.gl/Yazvn

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Re:Time Capsule for $25 (Using Raspbery Pi) by jujjine on Friday November 30, 2012 @03:06PM (#4855163)
At the introduction of the Time Capsule, it retailed for less than 100€.
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Re:Time Capsule for $25 (Using Raspbery Pi) by CrazedGeek on Friday November 30, 2012 @01:36PM (#4854653)
That's how much the hard drive is now. That teardown was done before the Thailand floods, which I'd imagine are related to the current Amazon price. [1] The WD20EARS was only $100 well before that Time Capsule was released. [2]

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/28/us-thai-floods-dri...

[2] From my Amazon order history: http://i.imgur.com/lYYlR.png

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