Your needs don't require your delving into RAID. Sure, go buy yourself a pair of 1TB firewire drives. Use one to store all of your primary data, use the second as a backup. A synchronization utility that would either automatically or manually ensure that the data on your backup would be identical to the data on your primary drive is all you need.
And Airport Extreme will work just fine. Ward Oldham On Aug 1, 2007, at 11:30 AM, b3studios wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be September 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
