AirPort Time Capsule
Comparison chart

AirPort Time Capsule

Section Title: Comparison chart
Table Section Text: None

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)	5th generation (mid 2013)

Marketing name	Time Capsule	AirPort Time Capsule

Release date	February 29, 2008	March 3, 2009	July 30, 2009	October 20, 2009	June 21, 2011	June 10, 2013

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	ME177LL/A	ME182LL/A

Model number	A1254	A1302	A1355	A1409	A1470

Hard drive	500 GB	1 TB	500 GB	1 TB	1 TB	2 TB	1 TB	2 TB	2 TB	3 TB	2 TB	3 TB

Original price	US$299 (smaller hard drive model) / US$499 (larger hard drive model)	US$299 (2TB) / US$399 (3TB)

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	Broadcom BCM4360

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	802.11 DSSS 1 & 2 Mbit/s standard, 802.11ac (draft)/a/b/g/n

Data link protocol	Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n (draft)	Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n	Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11ac (draft)/a/b/g/n

Network / transport protocol	Bonjour, IPsec, L2TP, PPTP	Bonjour, DHCP, DNS, IPsec, L2TP, PPPoE, PPTP

Sentence(s)

The earliest versions supported 802.11n wireless and came with a 500 GB hard drive in the base model, while the latest model, introduced in 2013, featured 802.11ac and a 3 TB hard drive.

final_sentence: The earliest versions supported 802.11n wireless and came with a 500 GB hard drive in the base model, while the latest model, introduced in 2013, featured 802.11ac and a 3 TB hard drive.