<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">This sounds like a sane approach for a small media rich network?</span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>A possible benefit of a single time capsule or single external disc per machine (vs a single high capacity box for the whole network) is that when the disc breaks you don't have to copy every byte of data from every single machine to the replacement disc, which is fairly horrible if you're talking about 4TB, especially if there's any wireless involved (!).</div><div><br></div><div>Also, you can manage upgrading the backup discs when a single machine gets its disc upgraded, as opposed to having to replace the whole big box backup.</div><div><br></div><div>Distributed vs Centralised, most of the standard pros and cons apply here.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dan</div><div><br></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>-- </div><div>Daniel Alexander Smith</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>IAM Group</div><div>School of Electronics and Computer Science</div><div>University of Southampton</div><div><a href="mailto:das05r@ecs.soton.ac.uk">das05r@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>