Hi guys,
I think its time that I tried to spec a NAS or something network based for our home setup. The misses works from home, with a large amount of digital images, on a Mac but with a recent system failure I have been rescuing things from her HDDs for use on her PC.
We have been considering for a while of getting a NAS or building a home server so she can have access to her files from any machine in the house; Mac or PC.
Talking to her I think we are looking at at least 3TB usable space, setup RAID mirroring and maybe some sort of parity protection. I dont know much about this sort of stuff, but would that mean a minimum of three HDDs?
I read someone's post about not buying NAS from companies as they use proprietary formats of the drives (so if the NAS dies then you cant read the HDDs in PC/Mac machines) and to go for building a home server, but again this seems daunting. Is this true about NAS formats?
I am looking to pick your brains and get some advice on what would be the best setup really.
Ideally would be accessible to a MAC and two PCs as well as iDevices, and use it to back up the systems as well as used as a shared storage area. Network is part wired and part wireless, but gigabit connections where able, not sure what other info would aid your advice.
Anyway, any thoughts would be much appreciated. Cheers
Oh apologies if this should be in network stuff, but thought might be best here.
I think its time that I tried to spec a NAS or something network based for our home setup. The misses works from home, with a large amount of digital images, on a Mac but with a recent system failure I have been rescuing things from her HDDs for use on her PC.
We have been considering for a while of getting a NAS or building a home server so she can have access to her files from any machine in the house; Mac or PC.
Talking to her I think we are looking at at least 3TB usable space, setup RAID mirroring and maybe some sort of parity protection. I dont know much about this sort of stuff, but would that mean a minimum of three HDDs?
I read someone's post about not buying NAS from companies as they use proprietary formats of the drives (so if the NAS dies then you cant read the HDDs in PC/Mac machines) and to go for building a home server, but again this seems daunting. Is this true about NAS formats?
I am looking to pick your brains and get some advice on what would be the best setup really.
Ideally would be accessible to a MAC and two PCs as well as iDevices, and use it to back up the systems as well as used as a shared storage area. Network is part wired and part wireless, but gigabit connections where able, not sure what other info would aid your advice.
Anyway, any thoughts would be much appreciated. Cheers
Oh apologies if this should be in network stuff, but thought might be best here.
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