Product Numbers
Apple Time Capsule SKU are constructed with the 5 first characters identifying the "product version" and the remaining ones indicating the localization, such as country-specific power supply.
As of the fourth generation, all generations have had two models; one with a smaller capacity hard drive, and one with a larger capacity hard drive, with them always being priced at US$299 and US$499 respectively.
| Model | 1st generation: early 2008 | 2nd generation, part 1: early 2009 | 2nd generation, part 2: mid-2009 | 3rd generation: late 2009 | 4th generation: mid-2011 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release date | February 29, 2008 | March 3, 2009 | July 30, 2009 | October 20, 2009 | June 21, 2011 | |||||
| Marketing model number | MB276LL/A | MB277LL/A | MB764LL/A | MB765LL/A | MB765LL/A (same as early 2009) | MB996LL/A | MC343LL/A | MC344LL/A | MD032LL/A | MD033LL/A |
| Model number | A1254 | A1302 | A1302 | A1355 | A1409 | |||||
| Hard drive | 500 GB | 1 TB | 500 GB | 1 TB | 1 TB | 2 TB | 1 TB | 2 TB | 2 TB | 3 TB |
| Original price | $299 (smaller hard drive model) / $499 (larger hard drive model) | |||||||||
| Guest networking | No | Yes | ||||||||
| 802.11a/b/g/n 2.4 GHz/5 GHz bands | Single-band operation | Dual-band operation | ||||||||
| Internal Wi-Fi | Marvell | Atheros AR9220/AR9223 | Marvell | Broadcom BCM4331 | ||||||
| Standards | 802.11 DSSS 1 & 2 Mbit/s standard, 802.11a/b/g/n (draft) | 802.11 DSSS 1 & 2 Mbit/s standard, 802.11a/b/g/n | ||||||||
| Data link protocol | Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n (draft) | Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n | ||||||||
| Network / transport protocol | IPSec, L2TP, PPTP | IPSec, L2TP, PPPoE, PPTP | Bonjour, DHCP, DNS, IPSec, L2TP, PPPoE, PPTP | |||||||
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