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<blockquote data-quote="IvanLasston" data-source="post: 1490984" data-attributes="member: 145676"><p>I have an external USB connected to a Time Capsule - and back up to it. (Long story but the USB drive is an old Time Capsule drive. I rescued the drive but the old Time Capsule power supply died.) I also have a friend that I have setup to backup to an Airport Extreme - and an external La Cie Raid drive. That is also working fine - but she is only backing up one machine.</p><p><a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/2025757/bugs-and-fixes-time-machine-airport-extreme-drives-and-multiple-macs.html" target="_blank">Bugs & Fixes: Time Machine, AirPort Extreme drives, and multiple Macs | Macworld</a></p><p></p><p>So although I've had good luck getting the USB drives to work as external backup - it seems that it isn't 100%. Also the drives have to be formatted hfs+ for this to all work.</p><p></p><p>I cannot store my iTunes or iPhoto library on my internal drive - as I have an 11" MBA with 256GB internal storage. I keep both libraries on a thunderbolt drive and it works fine. The only problem is - you have to have your drive attached to get your media. If you forget to attach the drive - just exit iPhoto or iTunes - plug in the drive - then restart - everything comes back fine.</p><p></p><p>On one PC - I even put my library on my time machine drive - and that worked fine as well. Just depends on what you are trying to accomplish.</p><p></p><p>Personally - I would follow KISS (Keep it Simple Silly) - and hook one external drive to your iMac - keep your libraries and backup on that for the iMac. You should have no problems sending the media to an Apple TV. This is my current setup and it is working great. I have an MBP with an external drive - that I use to store my libraries. It is only USB 2.0 - and I can stream to any of my Apple TVs - and it looks fine. (I have 1 1080p Apple TV but most of my media is DVD quality)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IvanLasston, post: 1490984, member: 145676"] I have an external USB connected to a Time Capsule - and back up to it. (Long story but the USB drive is an old Time Capsule drive. I rescued the drive but the old Time Capsule power supply died.) I also have a friend that I have setup to backup to an Airport Extreme - and an external La Cie Raid drive. That is also working fine - but she is only backing up one machine. [url=http://www.macworld.com/article/2025757/bugs-and-fixes-time-machine-airport-extreme-drives-and-multiple-macs.html]Bugs & Fixes: Time Machine, AirPort Extreme drives, and multiple Macs | Macworld[/url] So although I've had good luck getting the USB drives to work as external backup - it seems that it isn't 100%. Also the drives have to be formatted hfs+ for this to all work. I cannot store my iTunes or iPhoto library on my internal drive - as I have an 11" MBA with 256GB internal storage. I keep both libraries on a thunderbolt drive and it works fine. The only problem is - you have to have your drive attached to get your media. If you forget to attach the drive - just exit iPhoto or iTunes - plug in the drive - then restart - everything comes back fine. On one PC - I even put my library on my time machine drive - and that worked fine as well. Just depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Personally - I would follow KISS (Keep it Simple Silly) - and hook one external drive to your iMac - keep your libraries and backup on that for the iMac. You should have no problems sending the media to an Apple TV. This is my current setup and it is working great. I have an MBP with an external drive - that I use to store my libraries. It is only USB 2.0 - and I can stream to any of my Apple TVs - and it looks fine. (I have 1 1080p Apple TV but most of my media is DVD quality) [/QUOTE]
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