Re: NAS and sharing...
- From: Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 10:33:16 +0100
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:32:37 -0700 (PDT), Nige Danton
<Nige.Danton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Two macs (MB and Powerbook), both running Leopard, router, Airport
Express wireless base station plus other AE's for wireless music.
Neither of the macs are always on. The office is wired with ethernet
and elsewhere in the house the net is accessed wirelessly. I need to
add an external drive to centralise all of the music that is scattered
across various usb external drives and for other shared data and I'd
like all of the files on that drive to be accessible from either mac
at any time.
But I think I've become muddled on the best way to achieve this.
I was thinking of adding a large mirrored raid - something like the
Lacie Quadra - and plugging it into the router (there's a spare
ethernet port there) but then the drive would only be accessible on
the wired network and not wirelessly - that's right isn't it?
No, it's available to all. However, you may want to rethink your
choice of vendor...
Synology and Infrant do very nice kit from 2 to 8 drives (and one, but
we don't count them).
The AE's don't support external drives - so to have the Lacie
accessible by both the wired and wireless networks - I need to change
the AE base station for an Airport Extreme and plug the Lacie into
that - I think, is that right? - but then would the drive be available
on the wired network?
It would, but it's unnecessary due to the misconception answered
above.
Alternatively, I was thinking I could add a mac mini to the wired
network and leave it always on. The files on that machine could then
be shared. As a back up for the mini I suppose I could add an external
usb drive and have Time Machine do it's thing. I think that would work
ok - yes? - but it feels like a slightly unnecessarily expensive
solution.
That would work too, but if you are willing to go to that sort of cash
level, I'd recommend something like an Infrant or Synology 4 drive
box. Expandable RAID, so you can start with a couple of drives
mirrored and add more later which turns it into raid5; gigabit
ethernet; runs on embedded Linux; supports AFP, bonjour as well as
Windows shares; automated backups; extra USB sockets for more drive
and printer support; builtin torrent client... all sorts.
I've been using an Infrant NV+ for three years now. Excellent kit,
started with two 320gig drives, up to 4, converted to 4x500gig, now on
3x1Tb.
Remember also that you need to plan for backups of anything that is
solely on the NAS device - RAIDing is *not* a replacement for backups.
I use a USB box with the old 4x500gig disks in and a switch on the
back saying "combine into one virtual volume", plugged directly into
the NV+.
Cheers - Jaimie
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