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Hi, going to BKK next week to outfit our new AV studio with harddrive capacity, amongst other things, but getting totally confused on what to get. We have imacs, macbookpros, even pcs, etc, hanging off a local lan, some wired, some wireless, and i was thinking we need a networked fast secure harddrive solution. I started looking at firewire800 enclosures, but seems like the world is going esata-II, which requires PCI cards (uh oh, imacs), and whose enclosures don't appear to be networkable or chainable. So what the hay! Ideally we would have drives on the network we could read/write/edit video and audio and send all our backups to. But external enclosures on each machine is ok too, so we can take advantage of Timemachine and perhaps not have to worry about wireless slowdowns. But heck, I'm confused on what to do. Any suggestions? thanks!!!
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small AV studio in nepal

man, no help here? im in bkk and still totally confusing about what to get. i did get an esata2/firewire/usb case for the internal drive i swapped out of my mbp for a bigger one here, but did not get the pci card for it, as the tech at the shop said it won't be bootable, which made no sense to me. any help would be appreciated!
thx

How many machines are you talking about? What is bkk? Can you not order online?

A NAS type box via ethernet sounds like a good idea.

ice, thanks for ur reply,

BKK=Bangkok
No online ordering to Nepal!
NAS looks good but expensive and I am not clear if it will work for large video and audio files using tools like Protools and Premiere. We have about 6+ machines online at any given time.
More thoughts?