Backups running fine
I bought the TeraStation, and installing it was really easy. The SMB performance is rather bad, I get only 50% link utilization on a 100 MB LAN, but I now have ample space for the recovered data from my old drive and the backups from my PC.
I am really quite impressed with the TeraStation. If it performs reliably in the future, I will be recommending it as a backup solution for home use. Eventually I may also look into an off-site solution using TeraStations and something like OpenVPN.
For backups I am evaluating Acronis True Image 8.0 and Techsoft MirrorFolder. True Image seems to run fine, but MirrorFolder is giving me some trouble with fast user switching.