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NAS recommendations? - mattkime - 06-20-2007
What NAS devices are recommended?
LaCie has afp built in which is a must but I'e had a lot of bad experiences with LaCie drives failing.
Infrant sounds great but its overkill and too expensive.
Any other recommendations?
Re: NAS recommendations? - Paul F. - 06-20-2007
Well..
I have the LaCie at home... 500gb.
So far it's worked quite well. It's NOT fast.. but it was easy to configure, fairly quiet, and seems to work just fine.
If I needed a faster drive, the reviews seem to indicate that the Infrant is the one to beat. A lot more $$$ than the LaCie, however.
In my searching, I found no other drive as inexpensive as the LaCie that SPECIFICALLY advertised Mac support and native AFP volume support (rather than just telling how to connect to an SMB volume on the Mac...).
Re: NAS recommendations? - jdc - 06-20-2007
could you just share a drive through one mac rather than NAS?
Re: NAS recommendations? - Silencio - 06-20-2007
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822110041
Add your own SATA hard drive and rock out!
I have the previous generation model of this product, and I'm very pleased with it. Full support for APF 3.x, so no truncated file names or anything like that.
Re: NAS recommendations? - blusubaru - 06-20-2007
You know my vote! http://forums.macresource.com/read/1/153504/153504#msg-153504
Re: NAS recommendations? - Will Collier - 06-20-2007
I built my own. Used old Pentium 3 + mobo from eBay ($35) some RAM ($40), generic case ($35), a boot drive ($10), gigabit card ($10), HD controllers ($12 each) and drives (as much as you want to pay), plus freenas (freenas.org). Works great, and includes AFP.
Re: NAS recommendations? - bfd - 06-20-2007
bfd was gonna say North Island NAS is a nice place to visit … right next to Coronado and the Hotel del…
Re: NAS recommendations? - MikeF - 06-20-2007
[quote Silencio]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822110041
Add your own SATA hard drive and rock out!
I have the previous generation model of this product, and I'm very pleased with it. Full support for APF 3.x, so no truncated file names or anything like that.
Looked at that -- the 4th picture with the back and callouts as to what they are -- "reset hole". Couldn't have used "device reset" or something slightly more technical? Maybe it applies 10,000 volts to the person putting a paper clip in that hole -- that qualifies as "reset hole" -- doesn't state what it's resetting...
Re: NAS recommendations? - Article Accelerator - 06-21-2007
[quote Will Collier]I built my own. Used old Pentium 3 + mobo from eBay ($35) some RAM ($40), generic case ($35), a boot drive ($10), gigabit card ($10), HD controllers ($12 each) and drives (as much as you want to pay), plus freenas (freenas.org). Works great, and includes AFP.
Good one.
Or, you could just get this:
