which external hard disc for music storage?

I just put the WD 1TB SATA internal drive into my Mac for just this use, I got it @ Best Buy for $229 straight up, no rebate.

Now I want to find a good way to have iTunes compress the entire collection onto another disc in Apple Lossless (other drive is smaller and I want to use it in the wife's computer for ease of use for her)

Does anyone know how to best do this?

I found a way to have it compress the library, but that leaves me with two copies in the same library.

I highly recommend the Data Robotics Drobo. You can add more disk whenever you need and the Drobo will use as much as possible while keeping a backup copy.

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Do not get a Buffalo. You need to get something that is more geared towards corporate use. I suggest an Infrant ReadyNas drive with the more robust Seagate pro drives. You will be more than happy you spent the extra money knowing your data is safe and backed up.

I'm just taging this. Good Thread!

I'm happy using a NAS drive which gets backed up about every two months. Complete image of drive, no compression in my backup.

I have a Buffalo Terastation Pro. Fan noise is too loud for me even though it's in a separate room. The fan is always running- even in winter (Texas winters). Will move to an Infrant NV+ when the next 'new model' comes out from them.

All NASs are slow but only for that first big upload of info. Use a 1 gig network connection and it will take a few hours and be over that one time it's necessary to do.

Can't imagine storing my music on a laptop hard drive. That seems risky.