Greetings, all,
I have been reading the many, many storage questions on MR (spent all yesterday doing research) and I'm still pretty confused. Could you please give me some thoughts on my set-up?
My set-up: I have a 500 gig MBP that I use on a WiFi network (w/Airport, fourth generation), and back up via Time Machine to a 2 TB LaCie external hard drive.
Problem: MBP is running out of room, thanks in part to my iTunes library (80 gig) and my developing photography habit (150 gig). For the record, I'm not rich, so I need to be careful about my expenditures.
Goal: I need to expand my storage, make it easily accessible when I'm in my house (I don't want to be locked to my desk), and have a back-up plan for it in place--and do it at the most reasonable cost.
Proposed solutions:
1.) Upgrade HD of MBP, upgrade back-up drive to make sure it has room for new Time Machine back-ups, carry on as usual. Issue: I'm a bit nervous about this and it would look like two costs--the HD, and making sure the new back-up drive can fit the new HD's size.
2.) External USB on AirPort, back-up to online storage system. (This may be insanely time consuming, though. I tried CrashPlan once and after a month, it had about 15% of the drive. My WiFi speed *shouldn't* be slow--Airport signals my connections to the base station and my Airport Express are both good, but it's just an FYI. The Airport looks like it has a USB 2.0 on it, as best I can tell from my online research.)
3.) A Firewire drive I attach to my computer periodically. Still have to go digging it out whenever necessary, which would either discourage use of it or root me at my desk.
4.) I see the NAS system described here as well, and I'm not sure about those--it seems like you aren't treating them as a separate drive, but as a unique OS system on your network.
Can anybody chime in and give me a few thoughts? I'd really appreciate it.
Leia1912
I have been reading the many, many storage questions on MR (spent all yesterday doing research) and I'm still pretty confused. Could you please give me some thoughts on my set-up?
My set-up: I have a 500 gig MBP that I use on a WiFi network (w/Airport, fourth generation), and back up via Time Machine to a 2 TB LaCie external hard drive.
Problem: MBP is running out of room, thanks in part to my iTunes library (80 gig) and my developing photography habit (150 gig). For the record, I'm not rich, so I need to be careful about my expenditures.
Goal: I need to expand my storage, make it easily accessible when I'm in my house (I don't want to be locked to my desk), and have a back-up plan for it in place--and do it at the most reasonable cost.
Proposed solutions:
1.) Upgrade HD of MBP, upgrade back-up drive to make sure it has room for new Time Machine back-ups, carry on as usual. Issue: I'm a bit nervous about this and it would look like two costs--the HD, and making sure the new back-up drive can fit the new HD's size.
2.) External USB on AirPort, back-up to online storage system. (This may be insanely time consuming, though. I tried CrashPlan once and after a month, it had about 15% of the drive. My WiFi speed *shouldn't* be slow--Airport signals my connections to the base station and my Airport Express are both good, but it's just an FYI. The Airport looks like it has a USB 2.0 on it, as best I can tell from my online research.)
3.) A Firewire drive I attach to my computer periodically. Still have to go digging it out whenever necessary, which would either discourage use of it or root me at my desk.
4.) I see the NAS system described here as well, and I'm not sure about those--it seems like you aren't treating them as a separate drive, but as a unique OS system on your network.
Can anybody chime in and give me a few thoughts? I'd really appreciate it.
Leia1912
