Which storage device to buy?

I would greatly appreciate assistance in choosing the best storage product for me.
** I own a iMac with a 2TB hard drive
** I am looking for more storage space plus backup
** I am presently using 3 external drives - 2TB Airport Time Capsule, 2TB WD drive and 1.5TB LaCie drive
** I do a Time Machine backup of only data files to the Time Capsule; a full backup of my internal hard drive to the other 2TB drive using a 3rd party program - this drive is bootable; the 1.5TB drive stores my videos, no backup done of these files
** I have about 1TB in music files and almost 1.5TB in video files
** There are 2 immediate issues - a) I will soon run out of space on my LaCie for video files and, b) the video files are not being backed up.
** A future issue to consider is I might sell my iMac with 2TB storage and use MacBook Air with much less storage space available internally.
** I would like 1 backup of every file, 2 backups of my music files which I consider invalulable and might as well kill myself if I lost them, haha.
Any suggestions appreciated. I was pondering the My Cloud EX or an NAS, but I have no need to access the files from another computer or device. I like the idea of having RAID, not that I'm all that familiar with it. Thank you.

If you need portability you want a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air. A Mac mini is not portable and an iPad2 while a great device isn't what I consider ideal for software development. If you need a lot of storage you best bet would be a MacBook Pro, then you just have decide what size screen you want. Finding 1TB 2.5" drives is a little tough, you won't be able buy the machine with a 1TB drive pre-installed you will have to upgrade which is pretty easy on a MacBook Pro. You can find one (a Samsung) from OWC at www.macsales.com.
Also this is an iMac forum, posting here for a portable device doesn't make too much sense. I'd recommend the MBP or MBA forums.

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You can't use an external hard drive like you would with a computer.
You can use a USB flash drive & the camera connection kit.
Plug the USB flash drive into your computer & create a new folder titled DCIM. Then put your movie/photo files into the folder. The files must have a filename with exactly 8 characters long (no spaces) plus the file extension (i.e., my-movie.mov; DSCN0164.jpg).
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I am a Mac newby seeking advice. I recently purchased the MBA below to replace my personal PC. My previous setup was a desktop with plenty of storage to handle my needs (including iTunes) and I backed up data directly to an external hard drive (I know pretty basic).
After purchasing the MBA, I realized I do not have enough internal hard drive space to store all of my music and my current external drive is too small for all the media and backup of the MBA. Also, the point of the MBA is to be mobile. Also, I would like my Sonos music system (with an application similar to iTunes) to be able to access the music library. Lastly, I have far to many songs purchase outside of iTunes to use iTunes Match. Therefore, I started seeking wireless alternatives to store my music and backup my MBA. Although an NAS would probably be ideal, I have found out through trial and error that the basic systems do not work with a MAC and the only ones with a prayer are the more expensive ones (i.e. Synology and QNAPS). Therefore, I have decided to pursue a more simplified approach.
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Requesting CenturyLink provide me with a basic modem.
Purchasing an Airport Extreme (or similar wireless n router with a USB port).
Connecting the Airport Extreme (or other wireless router) to the basic modem.
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Partitioning it using either the specific one for the Time Capsule (or Disk Utility for other mass storage devices) to provide one volume for my media and one for backup using Time Machine.
Moving the media from my old external drive (which is catalogued with folders for each artist, subfolders for each album and the songs in the subfolders) by connecting the old mass storage device and Time Machine to my MBA and using Finder to do this (see the questions below regarding this).
Moving/cataloging the media from the Time Capsule (or other mass storage device) by dragging it into the iTunes window.
Connecting the Time Capsule (or other mass storage device) to the USB port of the Airport Extreme (or other wireless router).
Setting up Time Machine to use the volume partitioned for backups.
Possibly having to move cataloging files from my iTunes, Music folder to the external drive and pointing iTunes to the Time Capsule (or other mass storage device) through Preferences, Advanced to access the music.
Overall, I am concerned with the total cost. I just spent a lot of money, not only purchasing the MBA, but also the iPad 3 and upgrading my cell phone to the iPhone 5 (I skipped the 4). It seems that by the time I purchase an Airport Extreme and a Time Capsule, I could also have just bought a NAS like the Synology 213 with 2 X 1TB drives, connect it to the existing wireless router via ethernet connections and have a more comprehensive solution. Based upon these instructions and cost concerns (and bad experience), I have several questions related to this.
Does this configuration and these instructions make sense, including those for moving and accessing my music files through iTunes (i.e. will it work)?
Are both the Airport Extreme and Time Capsule necessary to make this work easily or can I purchase alternatives to either or each and if so, what is recommended? If they are necessary, would you recommend doing this or buying one of the aforementioned NAS's to a Mac newby?
Given the file structure for my music on the old external mass storage drive, can I simply move the folders over with the subfolders containing the musice files in them or do I have to literally enter into each subfolder, select all and move them subfolder by subfolder (i.e. album by album)?
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They both said about the same thing except the Apple Store business tech said to buy an Airport Extreme and just attach a partitioned external third party HDD to it.
Except that is flakey for TM backup..
http://pondini.org/TM/Airport.html
And slow as the proverbial dog.. although I guess the dog is old.
And totally inadequate as a media store or server.
Apple's pricing is pretty cunning.. I really doubt you are going to find a cheaper unit to do both wireless and TM backups than the TC. And it is a perfectly good device to do that. It is good to have in the network. And Apple sure make their products work with other apple products.. so it does work better than other similar cost products.. although you miss a lot of features that Apple predecided for you.
But I don't think anyone has the ideal solution to your problem. Apple believe in cloud. And if you have fibre internet that will work really well.. forks out your money and apple will store your stuff. But for the real world most of us do not have internet connection even a fraction of speed required. And it can be another decade before we will. We need a box that is half way between a TC and media PC, a file store and a NAS. Will Apple make one.. ?? I don't think so.. They believe in cloud..
You can make the missing link one yourself. If you are so inclined.. A HP microserver running freeNAS can do TM backups and makes an excellent media store because it can do AFP. You can put a graphics card in it and plug it into your TV. You can use it with a airport extreme. But you will need a degree in Geek.. !! The synology is a preconfigured form of that.. No Geekdom required. Synology seems to have the upper hand.. this week.
Let me make a suggestion.. Figure out if you are going to jump into the Apple way of doing stuff.. which is basically itunes on computer as a server.. and the whole network.. working as part of this.. so any media is pushed from a store in itunes.. whether local or internet.. if you want to do it that way.. getting something other than the air to run itunes is well worth it. That is what a NAS cannot do.. it cannot be a media player.
Or you do hybrid.. ie you don't use put all your media into itunes, you use a bit of this and bit of something else.. As long as that can play files.. stored on NAS or even on the TC without the itunes requirement.. It won't be as pretty. But it isn't hard to get working.. as long as you accept this isn't going to be the perfect Apple solution.

FAT 32 & PORTABLE STORAGE DEVICES.

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i'm looking to buy a portable storage device (psd) for my
digital camera - one where i can slot in the memory card &
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Amazingly, there are problems with these devices not being able
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First, to comment on the Disk Utility formatting as "DOS", when I take the drive I formatted on the Mac as DOS and hook it up to Windows XP, XP identifies it as FAT32. As I said before, I use a 40GB drive and format the entire volume as "DOS" and it works fine as a OTG device. And when I hook it up to an XP machine, it sees the whole volume as well. However if you try and format it with XP, because it is above 32BG, you are not offered a choice of "FAT" or "FAT32" as a format to use, only NTFS. Microsoft designed their operating system to only format drives as FAT32 if the drive is under 32GB, however it, XP, will happily use a >32GB FAT32 volume if already formatted that way.
I have looked at many of those other products you point to back when I was looking for something for this purpose. First and foremore, I use an Olympus camera that uses XD-Picture cards. Most of those devices that have built in card readers either do not support XD-Picture cards at all, or I couldn't get confirmation that the ones that can could read the newer 1Gig XD cards (many card readers won't).
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The Macally is a much cheaper solution since the enclosure is about $50 or so. Then you throw your own drive in. If you have one laying around already (say from a past laptp drive upgrade) your are ready to go. I bought a refurbed drive for about the same price so my total cost was roughly $100 for 40GB of portable OTG storage. You can probably find cheap smaller laptop drives to make your out of pocket price a lot less.
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There are other OTG drives and drive enclosures out there. Here is a cheap one...
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I am trying to install Oracle RAC 11g R2 onto my laptop PC - Lenovo T400s. I have installed Oracle Linux Server 6.4. The OOTB NIC was recognized by OS and eth0 is fine but I need one more NIC for RAC. RAC needs two NIC for public IP and private IP. Now I want to buy NIC for either USB or express card for the second NIC but I don't know which one to buy. Most of NICs that I find on the Internet is supported by Windows or Mac but I could not find any that says it is supported by Linux. Could someone tell me which one I should buy so I can download driver from the company website and compile from source hopefully..
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very_nice wrote:
The suggested advice in this support article http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1478 wasn't a help at all, because the option "enable disc use" in the summary window of itunes doesn't appear.
*From the article*:
Products Affected
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