iTunes and storage space

[steve1960]

I have a 500GB SSD in my 2011 MBP and am running out of space mainly due to iTunes backing up and holding movies, music and device backups.

Is there any way to force iTunes to save data on a remote drive?

 

[jbarley]

You can create or move your iTunes library on any drive you have mounted.

 

[steve1960]

Excellent thank you I will drill deeper into how to achieve that.

I have an 2 x 4TB Thunderbolt RAID array mounted which I would like to use.

 

[satcomer]

Excellent thank you I will drill deeper into how to achieve that.

I have an 2 x 4TB Thunderbolt RAID array mounted which I would like to use.

Take a look at this video even though he uses a Snology it will work with any external.

 

[jbarley]

Excellent thank you I will drill deeper into how to achieve that.

I have an 2 x 4TB Thunderbolt RAID array mounted which I would like to use.

Check out this link from Apple

 

[blueroom]

Adding a 128GB Transend JetDrive Lite might be an option. That's where I keep a copy of my iTunes music.

 

[satcomer]

Excellent thank you I will drill deeper into how to achieve that.

I have an 2 x 4TB Thunderbolt RAID array mounted which I would like to use.

Also I would take a look at the blog post Configuring OS X Mountain Lion Time Machine to Work With CIFS (SMB) Share(don't worry because this still works in Mavericks) if you would like to use Time Machine on that array (using your own paths of course).

 

[steve1960]

I did it thanks to all for the advice. I now have 450GB of space on the SSD instead of 190GB 🙂

I do also use the Thunderbolt RAID array for time Machine backups. It is set up as RAID 1 but still 4TB of space will be enough for me for quite a while.