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One for the apply fan buys probably....
Considering one of these babies:
http://www.apple.com/uk/airport-time-capsule/
Primarily for back up of photos, music etc. But this may be a stupid question, can you just use it like a wifi hard drive?
I.e. can I store my entire music library on it, and set itunes on the laptop to "look" at the time capsule drive (freeing up hard drive space), then play music wirelessly around the house through my apple tv & airport express?
or is it only a 1 way thig where you set you computers (ipads and iphones?) to back up to this device on a regular basis?
It's a wireless hard drive so you can use it both ways, however it will have quite slow transfer rates as it's over wifi as opposed to a direct connection. Although you should be able to connect directly I believe. itunes can be pointed at any folder.
I hope they are better than the originals, I bought one at the time and it only lasted about 18months before it died. They used to get VERY hot and then the power pack fried it'self.
I now have a Western Digital My Book which is much better, has more storage for less money, and it's been faultless for over 3 years.
I'd suggest looking at similar products elsewhere.
I would save some pennies and use an offering from Synology or similar that are a bit more universal.
I had a time capsule and from what I remember it was a pig trying to get it to share properly with the network and the wifi unless you have N/AC will be slow. Maybe look to plug whichever solution in to your router to give it the best chance.
Generally you can use Apple's time machine software on one half of a partioned drive and store anything else on the other bit. So I assume you can do the same with a time capsule.
But it's a bit risky having your back up on the same physical drive as your data.
so what I really need is a back up drive (either time machine or other) and a big extrnal hard drive attached to the laptop permanently as my main storage which backs up to the time machine.
or i could just find out what is taking so much space up on my hard drive??
320GB hard drive 80-90gb of music, 30GB of photos, but it says it is nearly full :-(, cant be the OS and MS office taking up all that space??