External Storage Question ....

I would like to get an external HDD for storing movies, photos, and music. I have a mix or purchased and my own content.
I am looking at these two drives:
G-Tech G-DRIVE 500GB FW400/800 Hard Drive
Western Digital My Book 500GB Pro Edition...
Can anyone help me sort through the ocean of options?
When I started looking, I thought I wanted an ethernet attached device so I could just attach it to my home router. But, it appears I can attach the drive to my airport extreme, which is acting as just a print server, and then connect the printer to the new hard drive. This solves the 'i only have one USB port on the old airport extreme' base station.
However, will my transfer rates suffer if I have wireless hop?
I don't need to hit the drive too often. I will do one big back-up, then incrementals each week.
There are no PC's on my network. Just two macbooks, and maybe a MacBook Pro or large mac destop (coming soon).
any help is appecriated.
-john

Most of the cheap NAS ethernet devices only support FAT32 formatted internal drives, which you access via a built-in SAMBA server. The maximum size of an individual file under this format is 4Gb. This is probably too small if you are using Apple's Backup, as this can easily create a file ten times this size. They are also slow, although you can usually connect them directly via USB as well. So you can do 'big' copies with them directly attached, and then less intensive use with them attached via NAS.
The Airport USB does not suffer from this 4Gb file limit problem, because it expects attached discs to be HFS+ format, the same as you mac. If you want to connect a printer at the same time you will need a USB hub, you can't 'daisy chain' USB the way you can with firewire. The hub must be USB 2.0 and preferably externally powered. With this setup you could connect the drive directly to your mac to do the first backup, and then attach it to the airport for subsequent 'incremental' backups, which would normally be much smaller. In fact if I were you I would first make a bootable copy of my mac hard disk to the (directly connected) external drive using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper, then run a full Apple Backup to the drive, then connect the drive to the airport for future use.
In practice I don't find much of a speed difference accessing network attached storage over wired 100Mb ethernet or airport extreme.
The above would be the easiest approach and would make best use of the stuff you already have available.
Another alternative would be to buy something like the Linksys NSLU2 as a slightly more capable file server - you can read more about it at my website http://www.zonko.ath.cx ! (Shameless plug!)

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