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05/08/10 Filed in: general troubleshooting
YIKES! My computer would not start up today and I was afraid...very afraid. Long story short..It works now. BUT, my Time Capsule is not working so great anymore.
You just updated both my kids computer and my own to be 1 TB Hard Drives.
My Time Capsule is 500MB, so it can't even begin to back up these two computers AND my laptop.
Do I go for the 2TB Time Capsule to back up hopefully my Mac World, OR is there something better and cheaper than the $500 Time Capsule that still backs up on its own and maybe even wirelessly.
I know you like Seagate as we have talked that before for one computer, but what if I want to do the whole group together? Or is the whole group together a bad idea in the first place?
This was the Seagate one I found that would be big enough. Just don't know if that is the right choice or the Time Capsule. Thanks.
Desktop hard drive | External Desktop hard drives | FreeAgent | GoFlex Desk | Seagate
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I would say no to the above drive. I have no experience with it but generally, trust the Apple software Time Machine and avoid the third party backup software and that’s what that Seagate is pushing. Now to answer the question about Time Capsule. The 2 TB time capsule is nice but way too overpriced for me to recommend. Instead I think it would be a better idea to either get a $99 FreeAgent by Seagate and let the two kids share backup between the two computers as long as they only have less than 500gigs of data a piece. And my bet is that they don’t have anywhere near 500 gigs each so the 1 TB drive would be fine for them to move back and forth to share. The other option is for each of them to have one. Which is still only $300 total for 3 drives versus the 2TB Time Capsule. So I’m leaning more toward each computer having it’s own backup. Knowing what I do about your setup, as I remember, you deal a lot in video so you have to be in the hard drive buying business. it might not be a bad idea for each computer to have its own backup. That way you don’t have to worry about space.
Now there is another solution though costly. DroboFS is the ultimate answer. It’s a box that holds multiple drives that all computers can use to backup. And the big positive here is the drives can be removed and increased in size to grow as your data needs do. The negative is the price. It’s most likely more than you need. Just thought I’d mention it.
You just updated both my kids computer and my own to be 1 TB Hard Drives.
My Time Capsule is 500MB, so it can't even begin to back up these two computers AND my laptop.
Do I go for the 2TB Time Capsule to back up hopefully my Mac World, OR is there something better and cheaper than the $500 Time Capsule that still backs up on its own and maybe even wirelessly.
I know you like Seagate as we have talked that before for one computer, but what if I want to do the whole group together? Or is the whole group together a bad idea in the first place?
This was the Seagate one I found that would be big enough. Just don't know if that is the right choice or the Time Capsule. Thanks.
Desktop hard drive | External Desktop hard drives | FreeAgent | GoFlex Desk | Seagate
___________
I would say no to the above drive. I have no experience with it but generally, trust the Apple software Time Machine and avoid the third party backup software and that’s what that Seagate is pushing. Now to answer the question about Time Capsule. The 2 TB time capsule is nice but way too overpriced for me to recommend. Instead I think it would be a better idea to either get a $99 FreeAgent by Seagate and let the two kids share backup between the two computers as long as they only have less than 500gigs of data a piece. And my bet is that they don’t have anywhere near 500 gigs each so the 1 TB drive would be fine for them to move back and forth to share. The other option is for each of them to have one. Which is still only $300 total for 3 drives versus the 2TB Time Capsule. So I’m leaning more toward each computer having it’s own backup. Knowing what I do about your setup, as I remember, you deal a lot in video so you have to be in the hard drive buying business. it might not be a bad idea for each computer to have its own backup. That way you don’t have to worry about space.
Now there is another solution though costly. DroboFS is the ultimate answer. It’s a box that holds multiple drives that all computers can use to backup. And the big positive here is the drives can be removed and increased in size to grow as your data needs do. The negative is the price. It’s most likely more than you need. Just thought I’d mention it.
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