I'm having a hard time finding a suitable HDD for time Machine. I decided to use my wife's 24" iMac as the house repository for all the files and use time machine to back it all up. In the past, I manually backed up to multiple external HDDs, unsightly, but works. Now with Time Machine, its asking for a drive larger than the total data/apps stored, which is slightly over 500GB.
Was looking for a 1TB external drive that actually uses 1 drive versus the slaved dual 500GB drives we see a lot to avoid possible issues with the internal circuitry not striping properly and negating the backups. Something FW400 or 800, it doesn't matter. Any recommendations? The reason why I'm not going with a 750GB is that she does a lot of graphics work and I know the files generated by her work coupled with Time Machine, it will easily eclipse the 750GB drive. I'm looking for something that will last longer... =)
I upgraded the internal HDD on the iMac 24" to a Seagate 1TB 32MB cache HDD- very nice and fast, but what a pain to do so! Also, the mac recognizes all 4GB of memory and 4GB usable versus 3GB under Leopard! Bonus! I was told this was a hardware limitation, but I guess not!
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