I have been searching the forums and can't seem to get a good answer for a fast, quality external HD to store video files with. 500gb Time Capsule is the same price as a 1tb raid Western Digital Mybook? Wireless speed vs. Firewire? Any suggestions?
Just get any firewire 400 or 800 hard drive, the time capsules are only good for laptops.
What I am really trying to do is twofold: first, I love the idea of letting my kids and wife use my laserjet from their laptops, now they email things to print. So, using TC as the network hub connected to my HP printer is a real plus, if its compatable. Second, I want a back up drive for imported rough home video files for editing. Should I have gotten another internal drive instead or both? I was just hoping TC was a one stop shop! Thanks for all of your feedback!
If all of your computers have wireless cards, I'm pretty sure you can set up a wireless network which will allow you to share your printer with other computers on the network? That would solve one of your problems for free.
Why have factory install? You can order more hard drives and install them yourself for less. Installing them was as easy or easier than installing ram.