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<blockquote data-quote="IvanLasston" data-source="post: 1049019" data-attributes="member: 145676"><p>You don't - if you want to backup to an external drive - since you have 1TB - you probably want a 1.5TB to 2TB drive to backup. That will give you enough headroom in case you fill your hard drive. Time Capsule is useful when you have multiple machines that connect wirelessly - If it is for the Imac only and not moving an external drive will work just fine.</p><p></p><p>I would recommend paying extra and look into a raid 0 solution - Mirrored disks - so it takes twice the disk space but protects you against single drive failure. You don't absolutely need it but I've had many USB hard drives (and regular hard drives) just die over the years - What's backing up your backup?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IvanLasston, post: 1049019, member: 145676"] You don't - if you want to backup to an external drive - since you have 1TB - you probably want a 1.5TB to 2TB drive to backup. That will give you enough headroom in case you fill your hard drive. Time Capsule is useful when you have multiple machines that connect wirelessly - If it is for the Imac only and not moving an external drive will work just fine. I would recommend paying extra and look into a raid 0 solution - Mirrored disks - so it takes twice the disk space but protects you against single drive failure. You don't absolutely need it but I've had many USB hard drives (and regular hard drives) just die over the years - What's backing up your backup? [/QUOTE]
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