Do I already regret purchasing a Time Capsule?

Last weekend I put in my order for a 500GB Time Capsule. On Wednesday if it found out that you can now use an external drive, with an Airport Extreme to get the same effect. I already have a 500GB external drive. So do I now regret ordering my Time Capsule (which by the way, hasn’t arrived yet)?

The short answer is, no.

My main reasoning behind it is that I would then have to pay £120 for the Airport Express (for the n networking), and if you add that on top of the pricing of my hard drive it would make it over the £200 price of the Time Capsule. So I will not have 1TB of external storage. Some that I can have hooked up directly to my Mac when I am at the desk and another 500GB when I am about the house, but still don’t want to keep on my main hard drive. IT’s kinda of like that when I am at home I have a 620GB hard drive. It sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

Some may ask why I don’t just sell my 500GB hard drive and put it towards something else. My reply to that is this. I have just come into the possession of a Canon HV30. Why you probably know records at 1080i - so I’m going to need a lot of space to fit all of that content on. And that 500Gb hard drive is probably going to be getting a lot more use then it would have if I hadn’t got my hands on the HV30.

With this method of storage I can separate out my data and have one hard drive for this purpose and the Time Capsule for the other. THe HV30 is arriving sometime today. Expect my initial thoughts on Monday,