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From: Paul Sture on 2 Jul 2010 14:12 In article <jollyroger-89CB90.17032201072010(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > Exactly. It's rife with potential slowdowns and problems. Standard > NTFS/SMB NAS isn't worth the money or trouble for Mac users, if you ask > me. I consider some sort of intelligent RAID (Drobo) connected to a Mac > with file sharing turned on to be a much better solution. Someone here a few years ago reported a problem using SMB and Finder for large directories. At the time I set up an SMB server (now known as CIFS) and managed to reproduce the problem. Directories containing more than 1400 or so files would result in appalling Finder performance. OK, that's a lot of files per directory, but that fact that Finder had problems made me wary of choosing an SMB/CIFS solution unless necessary. This _may_ have been solved in later versions of OS X (I was on either Panther or Tiger at the time). Windows Explorer didn't exhibit those performance problems, BTW. -- Paul Sture
From: Victor Eijkhout on 8 Jul 2010 14:32 <BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net> wrote: > > I'm surprised you haven't mentioned Drobo at all... > > Expensive. Somewhat. But it's flexible. Start it with some left over drives you have, then swap them out one by one for higher capacity as you need. > And then if we add another $200 for the DroboShare, it's a very pricey > total investment. I didn't need that. I'm using my Drobo for Time Machine, plus a folder of miscellaneous stuff. Works nicely. Victor. -- Victor Eijkhout -- eijkhout at tacc utexas edu
From: BreadWithSpam on 8 Jul 2010 14:44
see(a)sig.for.address (Victor Eijkhout) writes: > <BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net> wrote: > > > > I'm surprised you haven't mentioned Drobo at all... > > > > Expensive. > > Somewhat. But it's flexible. Start it with some left over drives you > have, then swap them out one by one for higher capacity as you need. I saw that. JR's strong endorsement got me looking more critically at the Drobo and I'm just about to pull the trigger on buying one now. The whole mix-and-match drives thing is really impressive. > > And then if we add another $200 for the DroboShare, it's a very pricey > > total investment. > > I didn't need that. I'm using my Drobo for Time Machine, plus a folder > of miscellaneous stuff. Works nicely. Since it'll be on my desktop iMac which runs 24/7 anyway, I may get by using the computer's filesharing adequately. I'm really looking forward to playing with this thing. Thanks for the feedback. -- Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed. |