I have an Apple Time Capsule as my home wireless router. 1TB internal for automatic hourly backups, 2TB external for photo archives (almost full, no surprise), 1TB for other file archives. 2x1TB offsite archive. I'm hitting a space crunch, so I'm about to find a 4TB solution for photo archives, allowing the 2TB to be repurposed for automatic backups. Lately we seem to burn 0.75-1TB/year.


I have 120GB and 250GB portable hard drives; they don't get much use lately, but the 250 worked fantastic last week on a cruise: I cooked up an 'rsync' command that automatically backed up the LR catalog, original .CR2, and DNG files to the 250. It was about 70GB of originals and roughly the same in DNGs, so I had to get the originals off my MBP.


I suspect very soon I'll pick up a Mac mini and use that as my file storage device. It'll give me flexibility to do more with rsync to conduct my off-site backups.


Every now and then I drool over the XSan products from Apple. Then I see the price tag and hang my head in fear of what storage will soon cost me.