The following may be incoherent (Wild Turkey works well)* I got a MP with the base hard drive, as advised, of 320GB. Unfortunately, I had 250GB of media to transfer. I go to install vista, it recommends 32GB and I definitely don't want to give up more than that. So i accept the recommendation.
Install Vista (retch), and the orange box (Yay!). That (plus Firefox) are all i've loaded on the partition, and its full. So I need more space. i have a 5 year old time machine drive, but that's too old to hold the only copy of anyhting. (figure i'll wait to replace it until it dies, though. What are the odds that my main drive would fail before I got a new time machine drive (or one of those slick time capsules) and that I would have something important that wasn't also on an email server? next to Zero
So I will be purchasing a new hard drive. Probably internal, unless a time capsule plugged in by Ethernet (since both the Airport and MP have gigabit) would be as fast as an internal sata drive. In that case, I'm totally getting one for all my media, so skip the next paragraph. There's more, just later.
If you're still reading, I guess the time capsule is impractical. In that case, I would like to get a big ole sata (that's still what we use, right?) hard drive. If I was to do so, remembering I have a 250 gig drive that can hold the entirety of what's on the windows partition, could I copy the OSX partition to the new drive, copy the windows copy to the ancient drive, format the original drive, and copy windows over? I know it'll take like all afternoon to do that, but that beats reinstalling Vista again (and my school might have to pay every time i activate it). It should work unless Vist will break. At least I don't have any data on that partition. So which plan should I use, or is there a better option?
TIME CAPSULE FOLKS:
There are two options atm
1. Get the Airport Extreme, use a new external hard drive for media. I could then put OSX and windows on one drive, but give most of it to vista, and only leave OSX enough space on this drive for everyday programs like word and firefox. Keep everything media and documents on the time capsule. This way Someone could play music over wifi, on any computer. And I could use the old drive for time machne. (179+HDD(300)+No new TM)
2. Get a Time Capsule. Same benefits, but no need to get another Hard Drive immediately. ($229+no new TM)
However, I like the idea of expandability, so I'm leaning to the Airport + HDD($300) if it
What do y'all think of this? It seems like I would be making the decision to go
*Mods: I didn't think that was inappropriate, but if it was, i apologize and feel free to delete that phrase.
Oh, yea. I'd like the printer plugged into the router. I notice they only have one usb. Can I get around that by using a hub? anything? Will I either have to print or use the external drive?
Hope this maked sense so far. Basically, I need a router, I like sharing music around my (home, legal) network, my new MP goes to sleep so hardcore that it doesn't work very well as a music server.
Install Vista (retch), and the orange box (Yay!). That (plus Firefox) are all i've loaded on the partition, and its full. So I need more space. i have a 5 year old time machine drive, but that's too old to hold the only copy of anyhting. (figure i'll wait to replace it until it dies, though. What are the odds that my main drive would fail before I got a new time machine drive (or one of those slick time capsules) and that I would have something important that wasn't also on an email server? next to Zero
So I will be purchasing a new hard drive. Probably internal, unless a time capsule plugged in by Ethernet (since both the Airport and MP have gigabit) would be as fast as an internal sata drive. In that case, I'm totally getting one for all my media, so skip the next paragraph. There's more, just later.
If you're still reading, I guess the time capsule is impractical. In that case, I would like to get a big ole sata (that's still what we use, right?) hard drive. If I was to do so, remembering I have a 250 gig drive that can hold the entirety of what's on the windows partition, could I copy the OSX partition to the new drive, copy the windows copy to the ancient drive, format the original drive, and copy windows over? I know it'll take like all afternoon to do that, but that beats reinstalling Vista again (and my school might have to pay every time i activate it). It should work unless Vist will break. At least I don't have any data on that partition. So which plan should I use, or is there a better option?
TIME CAPSULE FOLKS:
There are two options atm
1. Get the Airport Extreme, use a new external hard drive for media. I could then put OSX and windows on one drive, but give most of it to vista, and only leave OSX enough space on this drive for everyday programs like word and firefox. Keep everything media and documents on the time capsule. This way Someone could play music over wifi, on any computer. And I could use the old drive for time machne. (179+HDD(300)+No new TM)
2. Get a Time Capsule. Same benefits, but no need to get another Hard Drive immediately. ($229+no new TM)
However, I like the idea of expandability, so I'm leaning to the Airport + HDD($300) if it
What do y'all think of this? It seems like I would be making the decision to go
*Mods: I didn't think that was inappropriate, but if it was, i apologize and feel free to delete that phrase.
Oh, yea. I'd like the printer plugged into the router. I notice they only have one usb. Can I get around that by using a hub? anything? Will I either have to print or use the external drive?
Hope this maked sense so far. Basically, I need a router, I like sharing music around my (home, legal) network, my new MP goes to sleep so hardcore that it doesn't work very well as a music server.