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NAS Recommendations?
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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Can anyone speak for a good NAS that plays nice with Macs? Doesn't seem like any of them out there can be formatted HFS+, which wouldn't the iPhoto library to be happy. Also, may of them claim to be able to function with Time Machine, but again, no HFS+.
Thoughts?
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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HFS isn't really a must for a nas since there will be some translation occurring between what you're sending over the network and what gets written -- you don't write to the drive natively but rather over a number of protocols, samba, afp, ftp, etc. The best bet is to find one with afp support (netatalk) and bonjour/rendezvous (avahi) support -- as that will be as native as it's gonna get as far as auto discovery, etc. What it writes to beyond that doesn't really matter, per se.
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I have a Synology CubeStation CS407, with 4 1TB drives (WD10EACS). Haven't had any issues, and all my Macs see it automatically.
I don't use iPhoto directly on it, but instead I have a sparse diskimage on the NAS that I mount whenever I want iPhoto access. That way, to the Mac, it looks like an HFS+ drive, but it's really stored in the RAID array on the NAS in whatever format they use.
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Too many Apple/Mac products to even bother listing!
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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Originally Posted by SoBayJake 
I don't use iPhoto directly on it, but instead I have a sparse diskimage on the NAS that I mount whenever I want iPhoto access. That way, to the Mac, it looks like an HFS+ drive, but it's really stored in the RAID array on the NAS in whatever format they use.
This sounds like a pretty solid solution to me-- I was unaware the iPhoto was that picky, but that's a good way around it.
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15" MacBook Pro 2.0GHz i7 4GB RAM 6490M 120GB OWC 6G SSD 500GB HD
15" MacBook Pro 2.4GHz C2D 2GB RAM 8600M GT 200GB HD
17" C2D iMac 2.0GHz 2GB RAM x1600 500GB HD
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Originally Posted by indigoimac
This sounds like a pretty solid solution to me-- I was unaware the iPhoto was that picky, but that's a good way around it.
I didn't realize it was that picky either, until I tried it. It would pretend to load, but thumbnails weren't there, would hang, etc. As soon as I went to the disk image, it all magically worked.
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If it matters to you... the new firmware version for QNAP NAS supports HFS+ format drives externally - i.e external drives connected to the eSATA or USB ports.
That said I haven't tried it myself, and just use the internal drives formatted as EXT4 connected over the network via AFP. The Time Machine functionality has worked great so far.
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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I have a ReadyNAS NV+ (now a NVX) and use it with my Macs. It has a TimeMachine server, AFP, and an iTunes sharing server. You can even monitor it using an add-on with the iStat iPhone app. I like it quite well. A Mac Mini Server with a Promise SmartStor via FW800 would be pretty awesome too (more expensive though).
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