Hi there,
Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated. I am running a new MB Pro, it's great and a very potent device but is limited with its internal HD.
I am into music, photography and film, I have about 4.5tb worth of media and am not too sure what to do. I currently have 4 x 3tb Seagate USB 3.0 (so 12tb in total) - I use two of them as backups for the other two (with a very basic menthod of copying and pasting the files). Here are my questions:
1) Is there a more efficiant way of backing up the 2 hard drives and my MBP (perhaps using time machine?) with a constant update rather than deleting and copying the drives every month? This takes about 3 days to do in itself...
2) Can someone please explain RAID and if it is a good idea to perhaps invest in that and sell the 3tb hard drives? Also, is partitioning an option/ I don't really understand it either!
The MBP (quite stupidly) only has 2 USB ports, and clearly I could do with 4/5 to accomodate the drives and an iPod connected with iTunes - so maybe one larger RAID drive would be useful in that respect. Otherwise there is the option of a USB hub, but this would slow down transfer I think, and make the USB 3 drives slower than USB 2
3) I currently have my whole iTunes on one of the 3TB ExHDs, and have 1500GB to add to iTunes (clearly this won't fit on one drive. Is there a way of having music on the MBP (200GB worth), and TV Shows and Films (4TB worth) on two of the drives? I use the 'automatically add to iTunes' feature that I find useful, but this is no longer possible as I have filled up the iTYunes drive...
My whole situation is a bit messy, with all the different drives, bit I feel the need to backup whatever I have, as if one dropped/got beer in it/got stolen etc I would be distraught!
Thanks in advance for the help.
Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated. I am running a new MB Pro, it's great and a very potent device but is limited with its internal HD.
I am into music, photography and film, I have about 4.5tb worth of media and am not too sure what to do. I currently have 4 x 3tb Seagate USB 3.0 (so 12tb in total) - I use two of them as backups for the other two (with a very basic menthod of copying and pasting the files). Here are my questions:
1) Is there a more efficiant way of backing up the 2 hard drives and my MBP (perhaps using time machine?) with a constant update rather than deleting and copying the drives every month? This takes about 3 days to do in itself...
2) Can someone please explain RAID and if it is a good idea to perhaps invest in that and sell the 3tb hard drives? Also, is partitioning an option/ I don't really understand it either!
The MBP (quite stupidly) only has 2 USB ports, and clearly I could do with 4/5 to accomodate the drives and an iPod connected with iTunes - so maybe one larger RAID drive would be useful in that respect. Otherwise there is the option of a USB hub, but this would slow down transfer I think, and make the USB 3 drives slower than USB 2 3) I currently have my whole iTunes on one of the 3TB ExHDs, and have 1500GB to add to iTunes (clearly this won't fit on one drive. Is there a way of having music on the MBP (200GB worth), and TV Shows and Films (4TB worth) on two of the drives? I use the 'automatically add to iTunes' feature that I find useful, but this is no longer possible as I have filled up the iTYunes drive...
My whole situation is a bit messy, with all the different drives, bit I feel the need to backup whatever I have, as if one dropped/got beer in it/got stolen etc I would be distraught!
Thanks in advance for the help.