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acrahm

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Mar 12, 2007
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i am debating a couple options and hopefully i could get some great input here.
my situation is this:
have a mac mini and have about 500 gb of vids/music/photos etc but it will grow to just under 1tb. right now i have a 500 gb HD that has everything on it (used as my itunes folder) and a western digital my book 1 tb "mac" edition. I love the 1tb but have read some not so good reviews on it and am thinking of returning it. My worry is the HD's crashing suddenly and losing all the info.

these are the different scenarios i am thinking of doing, which one do you all think is best?

#1-buy 2 of these at costco, getting them at costo because of their return policy. http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product...se=&lang=en-US
use one as my itunes folder, other as my back up HD. total cost about $450

#2-buy 2 internal 750 gb and get a 2 bay enclosure for them and use this as my time machine HD and keep the WD mac edition and use that as itunes folder

#3-get a time capsule (tb) and use it as my time machine HD and then use a tb HD as itunes folder.

Which one would be best? feel free to suggest what HD's (internal or external) would be best, what enclosures would be best or a better option all together i havent posted

Thanks!!!
 
#3-get a time capsule (tb) and use it as my time machine HD and then use a tb HD as itunes folder.

I personally have had troubling issues with Time Capsule. It works the way it should, its just that while backing up data, the wireless network speed slows down to a crawl, and if it is backing up my 500GB HD, then the network speed is slow for over an hour, which I hate.

If I were you, I would look to go with option #2.
 
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