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Dear all,
I am the happy owner of a new macbook pro. I have transferred a lot of data onto it that I don’t want to lose. My laptop has the 320GB drive. I am therefore in the market for a back-up solution.
I am considering either Segate 320GB pocket drive with Firewire 800 connection or the Time Capsule
500GB.
Some questions spring to mind that I have not been able to find a direct answer to by searching
Using Time Capsule
Do you connect it by Ethernet the first time to get the master back-up otherwise will it take ages over Wi-Fi.
How long will it take to back-up say 20GB of changes through Time Machine over Wi-Fi?
A question for both options
How much larger should a Hard Disk used for Time Machine be than the data it’s backing up, I have some experience of ‘journal’ back-ups that used a great deal of space.
Time Capsule looks like a neat one box solution but I have seen some negative posts. It is a bit expensive when you look at the hard drives that you can get for the same money, although it provides the extra benefits of the Airport Extreme Base Station. At some point in the future I will need more disk space than the internal hard drive of my laptop, and then I will need to have another external drive as well as my Time Machine one.
In the UK costs break down like this:
Time Capsule 500GB £195
Time Capsule 1TB £322
Segate 320GB £130
Airport Extreme £116
Thanks
I am the happy owner of a new macbook pro. I have transferred a lot of data onto it that I don’t want to lose. My laptop has the 320GB drive. I am therefore in the market for a back-up solution.
I am considering either Segate 320GB pocket drive with Firewire 800 connection or the Time Capsule
500GB.
Some questions spring to mind that I have not been able to find a direct answer to by searching
Using Time Capsule
Do you connect it by Ethernet the first time to get the master back-up otherwise will it take ages over Wi-Fi.
How long will it take to back-up say 20GB of changes through Time Machine over Wi-Fi?
A question for both options
How much larger should a Hard Disk used for Time Machine be than the data it’s backing up, I have some experience of ‘journal’ back-ups that used a great deal of space.
Time Capsule looks like a neat one box solution but I have seen some negative posts. It is a bit expensive when you look at the hard drives that you can get for the same money, although it provides the extra benefits of the Airport Extreme Base Station. At some point in the future I will need more disk space than the internal hard drive of my laptop, and then I will need to have another external drive as well as my Time Machine one.
In the UK costs break down like this:
Time Capsule 500GB £195
Time Capsule 1TB £322
Segate 320GB £130
Airport Extreme £116
Thanks