12-03-2009, 06:12 PM
To compensate for other shortcomings, I have purchased a 2 TB hard drive and installed it in an external case (a NewerTech Ministack 2.5). It will be mainly a Time Machine site, with some additional offloaded files (not a lot), and accessed via network on my Airport Extreme Base Station (attached to the AEBS by USB). It replaces a 200Gb drive in the same setup that is no longer big enough with two 'books backing up to it.
How would you partition it?
Choices I can think of:
1. One partition. KISS principle.
2. Two equal partitions, with Carbon Copy Cloner or some such duping one side to the other
3. Mirrored RAID...though I've not been sold on these, since a corrupted file just gets copied over right away with no chance to intercept it.
4. Some other config that young folks use these days...
Thoughts?
How would you partition it?
Choices I can think of:
1. One partition. KISS principle.
2. Two equal partitions, with Carbon Copy Cloner or some such duping one side to the other
3. Mirrored RAID...though I've not been sold on these, since a corrupted file just gets copied over right away with no chance to intercept it.
4. Some other config that young folks use these days...
Thoughts?