We've been using laptops exclusively at home for a few years now, which works reasonably well. But now we've reached a point where it gets too troublesome to keep all the data on the laptops: It's just too much stuff to fit on typical laptop hard drives, and it's hard to sync the different machines.
How are other people solving this problem? What's a good way to store data (mostly photos managed in iPhoto, and music managed in iTunes) centrally and share between different laptops? And of course there should be a backup for the data as well. Here's the options I can think of:
Any input, any better ideas? I really think Apple needs to offer a iHomeServer kind of solution. The cloud is not an answer for everything...
How are other people solving this problem? What's a good way to store data (mostly photos managed in iPhoto, and music managed in iTunes) centrally and share between different laptops? And of course there should be a backup for the data as well. Here's the options I can think of:
- Buy some NAS solution (any recommendations?). But how can I solve the backup issue?
- Set up a simple server using a Mac mini with an external drive. Backup could be done via time machine.
- Buy a time capsule for data, and another one for backing up the time capsule. Is that even possible?
Any input, any better ideas? I really think Apple needs to offer a iHomeServer kind of solution. The cloud is not an answer for everything...
