Using TC as wireless Hard Drive?

The 120GB HD on my MacBook Pro is pretty much full to the brim now and I was considering a new internal hard drive but first I tried an external Maxtor hard drive plugged into my wifi router to store itunes and iphoto content, which was a failure to say the least.
My MBP crawled along struggling to read the data at any decent speed, despite the extra space on it's hard drive.
The final alternative to replacing my nice, quiet hard drive with a noise vibrating lump is to use a Time Capsule to store my content, but before I take the plunge I want to be sure that i'm not going to have the same issue as I did when I plugged the Maxtor drive into my router.
So in short, can I use iTunes / iPhoto / iMovie etc if all the content is stored on a Time Capsule?
Thanks in advance
Richard

It is highly likely you will have the same issues.
A USB connected hdd to a router has huge limitations, but even bigger limitation is wireless. Were you connecting via wired ie ethernet or wireless??
If you connect via wireless to the TC expect exactly the same issue.. the rate determining step is not the hdd speed but your slow (relative to hdd or ethernet) wireless is the problem. I am assuming your current router is N wireless.. if it isn't and you are only using G then TC can be 4x or 5x faster using 5ghz if you are close by.
Really if you cannot store your info on a 120GB drive even after off loading what you don't currently need, go and get a 500GB drive installed. They are cheap now. Although getting the drive into the MBP can be a pain depending on the model. If you want fast access to a network drive use ethernet. And a TC is slow cf a proper NAS. So if you do want to store files and access them make sure you use gigabit connection and switch and NAS.
Also realise that you have no backup, unless you also use another drive plugged in somewhere.. via usb direct or something.. never allow you library of photos, movies, music to exist on only one drive.. one day it will stop working. And you will lose everything. The cost of recovery is huge. At least with a proper NAS you can have a mirrored drive.. there is no mirror in the TC. And you can plug in a usb, or better esata drive and make a backup directly from the NAS. Store at least 3 places.. one offsite if you really care.

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Hi
Im new to these forums and to mac in general.
I just bought a TC TG thinking that I can use it for both backing up as well as a wireless hard drive for my macbook pro
aparantly I know heard you can only use it for one or the other
Is that true,anyone know?
If not is there anyway I can use lets say 500 gb for back up and the other 500 as extra storage space?
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i want to use TC as external hard drive but wireless and without extra router or internet i mean just plug it to the power and setup it on ios 5 wifi and thenuse it just like hot spot, i connect to the TC and use it as a external wireless hard drive, is it possible ?
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