TBH Walt I must admit I liked the idea of the mini server but wondered about the price/relative complexity compared to a NAS.
Billable time isn’t really the main point for me, it was simply an easy means of storage/retrieval. Nonetheless if the mini server really is that easy to set up, I’ll give it another look.
Given that I can get education discount I think it may well be worth it.
Thanks for the comments.
On 10 Feb 2010, 11:06 am, Tacitus wrote:
Has anyone any experience with NAS Storage devices?
I’m currently looking at Synology, Adaptek and Buffalo devices, mainly for storing video, photographs and music files. Speed is important, as the last NAS I tried was a LaCie which took ages to boot and, ran dog slow.
Comments, suggestions etc welcome.
On 10 Feb 2010, 11:47 am, waltd wrote:
Not personally, but there’s a LOT of discussion here:
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/harddrives/topic3300.html
Walter
On Feb 10, 2010, at 7:06 AM, Tacitus wrote:
Has anyone any experience with NAS Storage devices?
I’m currently looking at Synology, Adaptek and Buffalo devices,
mainly for storing video, photographs and music files. Speed is
important, as the last NAS I tried was a LaCie which took ages to
boot and, ran dog slow.
Comments, suggestions etc welcome.
On 10 Feb 2010, 2:12 pm, David Ledger wrote:
At 07:06 -0500 10/2/10, Tacitus wrote:
Has anyone any experience with NAS Storage devices?
I’m currently looking at Synology, Adaptek and Buffalo devices,
mainly for storing video, photographs and music files. Speed is
important, as the last NAS I tried was a LaCie which took ages to
boot and, ran dog slow.
Comments, suggestions etc welcome.
Same is true of the WD MyBook WorldEdition II. And mine’s on a
desktop 1GB lan along with my Macs.
David
David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK.
HP-UX specialist of hpUG technical user group (www.hpug.org.uk)
email@hidden
www.ivdcs.co.uk
On 10 Feb 2010, 2:17 pm, Trevreav wrote:
I think any time I’ve had dealings with NAS drives they’ve always been
slow (aside from the PITA it is to set them up from Mac to PC and vice-
versa)
Trev
On 10 Feb 2010, at 15:11, David Ledger wrote:
At 07:06 -0500 10/2/10, Tacitus wrote:
Has anyone any experience with NAS Storage devices?
I’m currently looking at Synology, Adaptek and Buffalo devices,
mainly for storing video, photographs and music files. Speed is
important, as the last NAS I tried was a LaCie which took ages to
boot and, ran dog slow.
Comments, suggestions etc welcome.
Same is true of the WD MyBook WorldEdition II. And mine’s on a
desktop 1GB lan along with my Macs.
David
–
David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK.
HP-UX specialist of hpUG technical user group (www.hpug.org.uk)
email@hidden
www.ivdcs.co.uk
On 10 Feb 2010, 2:25 pm, waltd wrote:
If your billable time is worth anything near what mine is, you owe it
to yourself to check out the Apple mini Server. Price/GB is
astronomical compared with some of these other solutions, but the fact
that you can chain FireWire 800 disks out the back of it until you run
out of things to store, and the fact that it’s a very capable and well-
rounded workgroup server with push-button setup and automatic updates
makes it a bargain for the time-starved. Plus it’s quiet and cute,
unlike my Xserve and Xserve RAID lurking in the basement.
Walter
On Feb 10, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Trevor Reaveley wrote:
I think any time I’ve had dealings with NAS drives they’ve always
been slow (aside from the PITA it is to set them up from Mac to PC
and vice-versa)
Trev
On 10 Feb 2010, at 15:11, David Ledger wrote:
At 07:06 -0500 10/2/10, Tacitus wrote:
Has anyone any experience with NAS Storage devices?
I’m currently looking at Synology, Adaptek and Buffalo devices,
mainly for storing video, photographs and music files. Speed is
important, as the last NAS I tried was a LaCie which took ages to
boot and, ran dog slow.
Comments, suggestions etc welcome.
Same is true of the WD MyBook WorldEdition II. And mine’s on a
desktop 1GB lan along with my Macs.
David
–
David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK.
HP-UX specialist of hpUG technical user group (www.hpug.org.uk)
email@hidden
www.ivdcs.co.uk