I need a new external storage device for the home LAN (one MacPro, one Macbook Air and one MacBook). The Pro is gigabit hardwired to the WLAN Router. The portables communicate exclusively over 802.11n. The external device will be used for Time Machine Backups for the laptops and for clones of the boot volume on the Pro.
(Internal drives on the Pro carry the Pro's own Time Machine backup and I have discrete smaller external USB drives that I use for clones for the Laptops). The question is whether I would get noticeably better performance with: a NAS drive attached to the AirPort Extreme Router than I would with: a USB2, or Firewire800 drive attached to either the AirPort Extreme Router, or the Pro ? when backing-up over WLAN from the laptops ? I guess that a TimeCapsule is probably the fastest, but its a hellishly expensive solution for folks who already have the latest AirPort Extreme Base Station. (1.5 TB Seagate USB/FW/eSATA drive for 170 Euro, vs. c. 200 Euro for a similarly spec'd NAS box, vs. 1 TB Time Capsule for 470 Euro). wtia, mark. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
