Will Stardom's "Safe Capsule" work with Airport Extreme?

I'm confused by the descriptions of this device. First of all there seem to be two different devices with more or less the same description one is just "Safe Capsule Made for Apple Time Capsule" which seems to indicate that it has the capacity for 2TB of memory, and "Safe Capsule with 2TB Made for Apple Time Capsule". It isn't clear why the second one is $369 while the first is only $79, but I assume that the first is probably "sans drive"? Since they don't say that specifically, it sounds a bit like a scam.
Second, is this devise usable if connected to Airport Extreme, or only if I already have a Time Capsule from Apple? Anyway, I order it and then immediately had second thoughts so called and canceled the order. But it's not clear to me what this device actually does, and the descriptions seem misleading. Here's a link to the description of the first device: http://tinyurl.com/34k5tf8
And here's the link to the second: http://tinyurl.com/3aeneh3
Pretty confusing.

Freewheeling wrote:
there seem to be two different devices with more or less the same description one is just "Safe Capsule Made for Apple Time Capsule" which seems to indicate that it has the capacity for 2TB of memory, and "Safe Capsule with 2TB Made for Apple Time Capsule". It isn't clear why the second one is $369 while the first is only $79, but I assume that the first is probably "sans drive"?
The wording is a little vague, but I agree with your impression.
is this devise usable if connected to Airport Extreme, or only if I already have a Time Capsule from Apple?
It should work fine with either one. You should be aware that Apple doesn't officially support use of a USB drive connected to an Apple Wi-Fi base station as a Time Machine drive, although many people have been reasonably successful with that.

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