itunes backup suggestions

I keep getting shot down on this suggestion due to cost, but really the best, and in the long run cheapest way to back up your iTunes is via Drobo. Look it up online. It is basically infinite storage with built in back up. 4 hot swappable SATA drives. I have my iTunes directly pathed there, and have the Drobo hooked up via Droboshare (yes at additional cost) to my network as a network resource. If you read how it works, 3 of the 4 drives could fail at the same time, and you would still keep all of your data. Any time there is a problem with a drive you are told by the Drobo to swap it out. You do this without turning anything off or losing any data. Works great, easy to set up, and you can put any size drives in it you want. I currently have 4 1TB drives which gives me 3.2 TB of storage, the rest dedicated to backing itself up.

Herman, I fudged the back up number, guessing, my Droboshare right now shows 2.98 TB of capacity, but you are right about the Drobo website. I have not spent $1000 on my Drobo/Droboshare and the 4 1 TB drives. I spent about $750 all in. Not cheap, but with my iTunes pathed there now I don't ever have to think about it, and as SATA drives get bigger I can continue to expand the storage.

I love this thing, after having so many hard drives, both internal and external die on me, and messing with storage and backup systems, this is the best option that I have found bar none.

Also, Drobo is slow?? It's instant, what is slow. I path everything there as a network drive and there it is. I have not wait for anything be it pictures, iTunes, documents, and let me say again, no data loss!!