I'm looking into setting up a home multimedia center using a mac and some external hard drives. as I will be moving my DVD collection over to this system, my music collection is already at 40+ gigs, and our picture and home movies are growing at an exponential rate, I plan to use up quite a bit of storage space.
From my limited knowledge and reading, I'm assuming I want something that is RAID-1 for data protection, just in case a drive fails. I'm looking at having at least 1TB of storage (this means I'll need two 1TB drives, correct?). What would be the best configuration/ set up. what is the difference between hardware and software RAID? Additionally, I would like to us the upcoming Time Machine features in leopard with this drives. Would the new airport extreme base station work with all of this? thanks
