Can i upgrade the time capsule hard drive to 4 TB?

OK, so the Hard Drive that came with the Time Capsule is apparently failing.  I never really worked right, but now it is definitely close to its impending doom.  I have a 4th generation Time Capsule and wanted to know if it is possible to install a 4TB and what brand will work best without a lot of hoops to jump through.

Yes a 4TB will work.. You want a Green drive ie a low consumption one.. the speed of the drive is irrelevant as they are processor bound so any cheap green from any company should work.
Do a google search if you want a specific one. I have not used a 4TB but I have used lots of different 3TB and all work fine.. some may have spin down issues and it is hard to predict. ie one firmware revision might work and another not on the same brand.
Since Apple are not yet using 4TB drives.. there is no preferred one.
Some people are installing 4TB in their new Gen5.
http://www.ifixit.com/Device/AirPort_Time_Capsule_A1470

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    manzalawy7 wrote:
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    No.

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  • I have a time machine backup file on a USB hard drive.  I bought a time capsule / airport extreme, flat 3TB.  I wish to transfer the backup file from the usb hard drive to the time capsule hard drive.  10.6.8

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  • Can not connect to Time Capsule hard drive when I am not on its network.

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  • Accessing the time capsule hard drive in bridge mode

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  • How do I backup manually my macbook pro hard drive to the time capsule hard drive?

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  • Can no longer backup Time Capsule hard drive

    I just upgraded to Lion and wanted to backup the Time Capsule disk.  I went into Airport Utility, but the option under disks is no longer there.  I backup my Time Capsule to ensure I have a backup of the data on the Time Capsule incase of loss.
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  • I can't see my time capsule hard drive anymore

    I have a macbook pro connected to time capsule (1tb) and a printer. I can access the internet and can print but my machine has stopped backing up and cannot find the time capsule hardrive anymore. I have tried resetting everything (several times) to no avail. Help!

    Open a Finder window and look for your TC in the sidebar, then click on it. It will then display one of the following messages: "Connected as <your user name>" or "Connection failed." If it's the latter, click on the "Connect..." button and enter the TC password. Make sure the checkbox for "Remember this password" is selected before you hit OK.
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  • Can the time capsule hard drive be changed?

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    SimonTemplar wrote:
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  • Can I connect to Time Capsule Hard Drive via USB cable?

    I'm having trouble connecting to a five year old Time Capsule Wirelessly.  Indeed, I just bought a brand new one.  But I need to connect to the old one's hard drive to recover lost files.  Can I connect to it via USB?

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  • Playing media files from Time Capsule hard drive

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    I am using my 3TB Time Capsule to host all of my video files, most of which are MKV files. I also have an external hard drive connected to the USB port on Time Capsule and there are few video files on it as well.
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    Do I need to install a media server device to read files from hard drives and storage, and stream to media player (Argosy)?
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  • Unable to connect to Time Capsule hard drive

    I have my Time Capsule set up as my wi-fi internet router and my time machine backups go on its hard drive. More often lately, I can get to the internet just fine but when I try to browse to the Time Capsule hard drive, I receive a message about it being unable to connect. This error occurs on both my iMac that is connected to the Time Capsule via ethernet and those accessing it via wi-fi. If I unplug the Time Capsule and plug it back in, it connects. It's just a pain having to do this every week! Any thoughts on why this might be happening?

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    I would recommend you then start over.. keep the copy of the sparsebundle as archive version.
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