MBP Hard Drive and Backup Strategy Help

[evanb]

I need some help with a hard drive strategy.

I have a MBP SR 2.2 with the 120 GB internal. I use leopard, and time machine is working wonderfully. But I need more. The original plan was to spring for Super Duper and two 120 GB portable external drives to do a rotation of clone drives. The idea being keep one at home, keep one at a friend's house, back up once a week and switch drives.

Here's the hitch: I only about 20 GB free on the MBP drive (do mostly to a media library that keeps increasing). The way I see it I have two good options:

1) Proceed as planned above with the two external hds and super duper, and transfer some of my lesser played music, pictures and comic books to a third harddrive.; or

2) Buy an internal HD (maybe 250GB) for the MBP. Then get two 250 portables and do my rotating backup plan. My big concern here is that I will void my Apple Care by replacing the HD.

I would appreciate any comments or suggestions as to what is the best move here, maybe even a third option. Thanks.

 

[ajx22]

External drive for BU's -

and / or

http://www.crashplan.com/index.vtl

 

[basesloaded190]

im in your boat with my macbook. i have an external but i only have about 30 gig left on my internal. if i were you i would get both an internal and one external. you can partition the internal for tm and do your thing with the other as you please

 

[evansb]

The big issue that I am having with the internal is the warranty issue. Will putting in a new drive kill the warranty? The research I have done on the issue in these forums seems uncertain.

 

[Neil321]

The big issue that I am having with the internal is the warranty issue. Will putting in a new drive kill the warranty? The research I have done on the issue in these forums seems uncertain.

Not unless you screw something up