[Macworld]

Post your comments for Newer Ministack ups storage to 1.5TB here

[DogHouseDub]

anybody know if these are the same dimensions as the Airport Extreme or AppleTV?

[flybynight]

$270 + $179 for an Airport Extreme = $449. I was hoping that Apple would either up the capacity of the Time Capsule or drop the price. $320 for a 1Tb drive seemed like an OK deal when it first came out, but now it is excessive.

[Peter Cohen]

The Apple TV is 7.7 x 7.7 x 1; the AirPort Extreme Base Station is 6.5 x 6.5 x 1.3. So it's smaller than the Apple TV (and, for anyone who's interested, the Time Capsule), but the same length and width as the AEBS.

[kms007]

I have a Ministack v2.0. The fan bearings started to rattle and make noise just a few months after its 1st year warranty. Buyer beware.

[nriley]

Yup, same here (miniStack 3), a few months after the warranty expired, the fan noise became unbearable until I took the case cover off. And it's not possible to buy replacement fans in quantities smaller than ~500.

[mdawson]

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I have a Ministack v2.0. The fan bearings started to rattle and make noise just a few months after its 1st year warranty. Buyer beware.

I just love how people experience a problem with a product and start posting of doom and gloom as if what they have experienced is indicative of the product. Your experience with the miniStack is just that: your experience. The miniStack has been around for 4+ years and few people have complaints. I have an early production original miniStack that runs as well now as it did when I purchased it over 3 years ago.

[nriley]

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I just love how people experience a problem with a product and start posting of doom and gloom as if what they have experienced is indicative of the product. Your experience with the miniStack is just that: your experience. The miniStack has been around for 4+ years and few people have complaints. I have an early production original miniStack that runs as well now as it did when I purchased it over 3 years ago.

Duh. Experience reports are worth exactly that much ? they represent one person's experience. I've also got an original miniStack that has been running fine for much longer than my broken miniStack 3.0. Regardless, the fact that the fan fails loudly and is not economically replaceable would have caused me to buy something else had I known at the time, despite the likelihood of this failure.

(I could also mention that I got my miniStack 3.0 replaced under warranty because the FireWire controller died several months after purchase.)

[mdawson]

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Duh. Experience reports are worth exactly that much ? they represent one person's experience.

kms007 did not leave at just being his experience; he qualified his post with ?buyer beware?. As a person that actually knows how to conduct a proper analysis, I have no tolerance for conclusions based on false inference.

[revco]

My v1 miniStack died within its first year and was repaired under warranty. It's been running fine 24/7 for the last couple of years hooked up to my mini as our music (SqueezeBox) and video (XBox 360) server. I think they're a fantastic piece of hardware.

[seavent]

Couldn't agree more. Data sample size is very very important if one is trying to reach a conclusion of any validity. It's fine to report a drive failure. Not fine to indicate that based upon a data sample of 1 the equipment is junk. I've had a OWC miniStack for 4 years, use it daily, and have had nary a problem. This means I got a good one, nothing more or less than that.
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