Not sure what I need (if anything)...
Currently have a fruity laptop, also some tablets of the fruit variety and a PS3.
Backup strategy is handled by 2x external usb3 drives (time machine and ccc) which I rotate offsite and also Dropbox. My entire music collection and photos fit on my 256Gb SSD with about 50gb to spare - so don't need hundreds of gigs of space. What I do need to do is remember to plug in the drives and swap them over - although Dropbox is running all the time - but obviously if there was a corrupt file or something was wrongly edited it would sync that to the cloud instantly.
I am considering ripping my bluray and dvd collections as well so storage needs would potentially increase significantly. I am researching the following (in no order or preference)...
1. Time Capsule / 2Tb / £249
2. Mac Mini / 500Gb / £499
3. Acer Revo L80 / 750Gb / £399
4. Synology 2bay NAS / 1Tb / £380
Any suggestions or comments please?
If I didn't go with the film ripping then I could probably make do with simply network based file storage and time machine backup destination. If I went with the film ripping then I would be looking at plex or similar so would want to stream to my ps3 or have something hooked up to the telly to play them (revo or mini) - or does a PS3 or Apple TV see a plex source and play films from it?
Currently have a fruity laptop, also some tablets of the fruit variety and a PS3.
Backup strategy is handled by 2x external usb3 drives (time machine and ccc) which I rotate offsite and also Dropbox. My entire music collection and photos fit on my 256Gb SSD with about 50gb to spare - so don't need hundreds of gigs of space. What I do need to do is remember to plug in the drives and swap them over - although Dropbox is running all the time - but obviously if there was a corrupt file or something was wrongly edited it would sync that to the cloud instantly.
I am considering ripping my bluray and dvd collections as well so storage needs would potentially increase significantly. I am researching the following (in no order or preference)...
1. Time Capsule / 2Tb / £249
2. Mac Mini / 500Gb / £499
3. Acer Revo L80 / 750Gb / £399
4. Synology 2bay NAS / 1Tb / £380
Any suggestions or comments please?
If I didn't go with the film ripping then I could probably make do with simply network based file storage and time machine backup destination. If I went with the film ripping then I would be looking at plex or similar so would want to stream to my ps3 or have something hooked up to the telly to play them (revo or mini) - or does a PS3 or Apple TV see a plex source and play films from it?