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From: Jolly Roger on 20 Feb 2010 19:50 In article <2010022011485916807-not(a)dotcom>, thepixelfreak <not(a)dot.com> wrote: > Any recommendations for Mac friendly NAS disk other than Time Capsule? > Compatible with Time Machine a plus but not a requirement. I do have a > Airport Extreme but I don't want to have to get a USB hub to add a > drive to it. I've got a printer attached at the moment. You sure you want to deal with the limitations of a NAS with a Windows file system on it? Personally, I'd *much* rather a Firewire-connected Drobo running Mac HFS+!: <http://drobo.com> -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Jolly Roger on 20 Feb 2010 19:52 In article <tph-4580D7.13365020022010(a)localhost>, Tom Harrington <tph(a)pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote: > In article <2010022011485916807-not(a)dotcom>, > thepixelfreak <not(a)dot.com> wrote: > > > Any recommendations for Mac friendly NAS disk other than Time Capsule? > > Compatible with Time Machine a plus but not a requirement. I do have a > > Airport Extreme but I don't want to have to get a USB hub to add a > > drive to it. I've got a printer attached at the moment. > > I've heard good things about the Data Robot-- <http://drobo.com/>. It > supports AFP so it integrates well with Macs. I highly recommend it. The RAID technology in it is lightyears ahead of most any other solution on the market. I love mine! -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Father Justin on 20 Feb 2010 22:56 On 2/20/10 7:50 PM, Jolly Roger wrote: > In article<2010022011485916807-not(a)dotcom>, > thepixelfreak<not(a)dot.com> wrote: > >> Any recommendations for Mac friendly NAS disk other than Time Capsule? >> Compatible with Time Machine a plus but not a requirement. I do have a >> Airport Extreme but I don't want to have to get a USB hub to add a >> drive to it. I've got a printer attached at the moment. > > You sure you want to deal with the limitations of a NAS with a Windows > file system on it? Personally, I'd *much* rather a Firewire-connected > Drobo running Mac HFS+!: > > <http://drobo.com> > Indeed. However if one has several macs on the same network, a NAS would be alot better. From what I understand, if you're going to use Time Machine accross a network, it must use AFP, not SMB. The filesystem on the NAS (that speaks AFP) is irrelevant. It can be ext2/3, NTFS or HFS+. Just don't use fat or fat32 due to the 2GB filesize limitation. Check out Synology and Qnap products as they tend to speak AFP. LaCie - sucks. -- http://www.vatican.va
From: Jolly Roger on 21 Feb 2010 00:39 In article <hlqau7$2s3$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Father Justin <justin(a)nobecauseihatespam.com> wrote: > On 2/20/10 7:50 PM, Jolly Roger wrote: > > In article<2010022011485916807-not(a)dotcom>, > > thepixelfreak<not(a)dot.com> wrote: > > > >> Any recommendations for Mac friendly NAS disk other than Time Capsule? > >> Compatible with Time Machine a plus but not a requirement. I do have a > >> Airport Extreme but I don't want to have to get a USB hub to add a > >> drive to it. I've got a printer attached at the moment. > > > > You sure you want to deal with the limitations of a NAS with a Windows > > file system on it? Personally, I'd *much* rather a Firewire-connected > > Drobo running Mac HFS+!: > > > > <http://drobo.com> > > > > Indeed. > However if one has several macs on the same network, a NAS would be alot > better. The DroboShare wouldn't suffice?: <http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/droboshare-drobo-nas-mini-review/> > From what I understand, if you're going to use Time Machine accross a > network, it must use AFP, not SMB. The filesystem on the NAS (that > speaks AFP) is irrelevant. It can be ext2/3, NTFS or HFS+. Just don't > use fat or fat32 due to the 2GB filesize limitation. There are file name and other limitations to consider as well. It does matter what file system the NAS uses, IMO. Any solution that does not allow me to use HFS+ isn't an acceptable solution for me. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 21 Feb 2010 10:44 On 2010-02-20 11:39 PM, Jolly Roger wrote: > The DroboShare wouldn't suffice?: > > <http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/droboshare-drobo-nas-mini-review/> The first thing I looked at when this discussion started was at drobo products. And unfortunately (and surprisingly) the droboshare is SMB/CIFS only. It doesn't do AFP. This may rule it out for several people. Of course if I wanted to build an NAS for a Mac network, I would attached a Drobo via FireWire to a Mac Mini, and use the Mini to provide AFP services. This way, I could also make that Mini an iTunes server as well. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://goldmark.org/jeff/ I rarely read HTML or poorly quoting posts Reply-To address is valid
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