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Questions about external drives
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I also have one of the 1TB My Book drives and I use it for TM BUs for three laptops, each with 250 GB HDs or less. I did not partition the drive but I can see putting a limit on the size of the TM backup files. In my case, I use one machine nearly all the time and the others mostly when I travel, so their TM files remain relatively small.

I'd make the TM partition twice the size of the HD you're backing up. Too small and it will constantly be trashing older files. I second rz suggesting the 250 to be used as a clone. I actually have two for my main machine, backed up with CCC once a week, alternating between the drives. If your iTunes/photo libraries are getting too big for the iMac drive, I'd move them to the 1 TB MyBook.
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Questions about external drives - by MartyStickle - 09-23-2009, 01:01 PM
Re: Questions about external drives - by Black - 09-23-2009, 01:11 PM
Re: Questions about external drives - by rz - 09-23-2009, 01:15 PM
Re: Questions about external drives - by olnacl - 09-23-2009, 03:45 PM

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