I have an iMac and iMovie 08, with which I want to edit family and holiday video. At the moment I have a Macpower Taurus, with a FW800 connection, and two 500gb drives setup in RAID 0.
The problem is that I am starting to run out of space, as this external drive is used for storing my iPhoto library, video and Time Machine backups.
I have a spare PC which is doing nothing, and was thinking I could convert that into a NAS box using a Linux distro.
Would this be any good for editing video over a 1gb LAN connection? Or should I rather move the backups onto this "NAS"? Can Time Machine backup to such a NAS setup?
Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.
The problem is that I am starting to run out of space, as this external drive is used for storing my iPhoto library, video and Time Machine backups.
I have a spare PC which is doing nothing, and was thinking I could convert that into a NAS box using a Linux distro.
Would this be any good for editing video over a 1gb LAN connection? Or should I rather move the backups onto this "NAS"? Can Time Machine backup to such a NAS setup?
Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.