Time Capsule or Airport Extreme?

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Hi,

I currently have three WD Mybook Pro drives which are sat next to my iMac, and quite frankly they drive me insane constantly vibrating and stuff, so I want to put them out of the way in the comms cab in the office. Obviously, to do this I need some sort of NAS box, and the Time Capsule or Airport Extreme Base look like a good idea. One is currently a Time Machine drive shared across the network, the others have media on them.

I've heard that the AEBS has speed problems reading/writing to USB attached drives, is this true? And what about the Time Capsule? I currently have 3x500GB drives that are virtually full, so I'd still need to use them even if I got a 1TB Time Capsule.

I'm also thinking about replacing them all with a Drobo at some point to make things a bit simpler (not that it'll make a difference to what I've mentioned above).
 
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Problem is I'd still want to put the Drobo in the Comms cab, and would need to buy the Drobo Share or something else to share it across the network... hmm.
 
The auto shutdown wouldn't bother me - 23Mb/sec is reasonable performance though I suppose... hmm.

Will that allow access to HD content though?
 
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