Hi all,
I'm looking for some advice on what external HDD to buy. Here's my setup and requirements. Based off of this, what would you recommend?
My Setup
1. I have a Mac Mini hooked up to my HDTV at home that I use primarily as my media center. I watch TV shows, movies and listen to music from here but all content resides on the external HDD
2. I have a Macbook that I use primarily for work
3. I have an Airport Extreme w/ Gigabit Ethernet that I currently share my printer and 250GB hard drive (running out of room, this is the piece I want to replace) on my LAN.
My requirements
1. Share all files from my external HDD over the LAN AND access remotely with my Macbook from work. I currently have it sharing over the LAN but not sure of the easiest way to do WAN sharing. Should I get a USB 2.0 HDD or Gigabit Ethernet one and not use the Airport Extreme?
2. Backup my systems both at home and from work using Time Machine.
3. Have some redundancy in this system
4. At least 500GB, max 1TB needed
So basically my decisions need to be, what gigabit ethernet hard drives work best with a Mac and allow me to access remotely or should I just use a USB 2.0 drive with the Airport? Which HDD's offer redundancy? Any suggestions? Thanks everyone in advance!
Jer
I'm looking for some advice on what external HDD to buy. Here's my setup and requirements. Based off of this, what would you recommend?
My Setup
1. I have a Mac Mini hooked up to my HDTV at home that I use primarily as my media center. I watch TV shows, movies and listen to music from here but all content resides on the external HDD
2. I have a Macbook that I use primarily for work
3. I have an Airport Extreme w/ Gigabit Ethernet that I currently share my printer and 250GB hard drive (running out of room, this is the piece I want to replace) on my LAN.
My requirements
1. Share all files from my external HDD over the LAN AND access remotely with my Macbook from work. I currently have it sharing over the LAN but not sure of the easiest way to do WAN sharing. Should I get a USB 2.0 HDD or Gigabit Ethernet one and not use the Airport Extreme?
2. Backup my systems both at home and from work using Time Machine.
3. Have some redundancy in this system
4. At least 500GB, max 1TB needed
So basically my decisions need to be, what gigabit ethernet hard drives work best with a Mac and allow me to access remotely or should I just use a USB 2.0 drive with the Airport? Which HDD's offer redundancy? Any suggestions? Thanks everyone in advance!
Jer