This is precisely the reason I have not made the move to a TC -- too small a drive, even at 1TB. The misses and I are both pushing approximately 400GB in use each on our machines, which means a 2TB barely covers the 2:1 recommended ratio.
What would take the cake, hands down, is if the TC supported the ability to use its USB port specifically for the purpose of using an external drive to backup the TC's backup in a kind of quasi-RAID config. It's kind of my dream setup in terms of my needs: wireless backup with redundancy while using TM.
We have three machines here with a combined disk size of just over 1TB, and they all back up to a 250GB drive with room to spare. It would be nice to have more but the point is that all the essential stuff in home folders fits just fine. With some careful editing of which folders are backed up, 500GB can go a long way.
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This is precisely the reason I have not made the move to a TC -- too small a drive, even at 1TB. The misses and I are both pushing approximately 400GB in use each on our machines, which means a 2TB barely covers the 2:1 recommended ratio.
What would take the cake, hands down, is if the TC supported the ability to use its USB port specifically for the purpose of using an external drive to backup the TC's backup in a kind of quasi-RAID config. It's kind of my dream setup in terms of my needs: wireless backup with redundancy while using TM.
We have three machines here with a combined disk size of just over 1TB, and they all back up to a 250GB drive with room to spare. It would be nice to have more but the point is that all the essential stuff in home folders fits just fine. With some careful editing of which folders are backed up, 500GB can go a long way.