At the same time I got the Magic Mouse I also treated myself to a LaCie Hard Disk MAX Quadra. A 2TB version to be specific, with a range of connections from USB to FireWire 800. The drive contains an array of two hard-disks of 1 TB and is able to run in one of two RAID modes, RAID-0 and RAID-1.
Using RAID-0 means the data is spread across both disks while using RAID-1 means both disks contain exactly the same data. When using RAID-0 one will have 2TB of storage and when using RAID-1 this is reduced to 1TB (the capacity of the smallest capacity disk in the array). As I intend to use this drive as a backup system I opted for RAID-1, so in case one disk fails I can replace it without losing data.
In my search for a program to make automatic backups of my system I did not have far to look. Time Machine has been a part of the Mac OS X operating system since version 10.5 (Leopard) and automatically creates backups every hour.
Setting it up was easy, much easier than I initially anticipated. On first connecting the new drive it automatically asked my if I would like to use Time Machine to make backups on the drive. It only needed a single click of approval and it was done. After that it needed a few hours for the first backup but now it just needs a few seconds every hour to backup the files that have been created or altered since the last backup. Very easy, very efficient, very much recommended.
All this Time Machine talk just gave me a nice little brainwave, the Doctor Who mini-marathon I just had might have something to do with it: A TARDIS shaped backup disk. Would. Be. Awesome. With the light on top flashing during backup! If someone cares to make one of these I’d be willing to sacrifice some time to do a review 
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