NAS for Mac

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Cripes ! Someone has asked me to recommend a NAS for a Mac...
I know SFA about Macs and their siblings. Can anyone recommned a NAS that will do this for a Mac and not cost a major organ ?

I have been looking myself at the 1Tb Buffalo which was on special at ******, I'd be looking for something in same price range, i.e. cheap. and should be as automated as possible.
The time machine app is built in to the OS, I think. Do macs use regular ethernet RJ45 ?
I understand that the drive will work with Macs, but I expect there is some fiddling around re-formatting and connection.

What else should I know ? Thanks in advance.
 
lol @ some of the questions, RJ45?! :P

Ok. They are normal PCs hardware wise and any NAS will work as far as my research has shown.

No formatting will be required as thats down to the NAS itself.

Plug and play I believe!
 
I am a OSX N00b !

No frmatting ? No setup required for OSX ?
How does time machine work with a NAS ?
 
My Nas is in fat32 format as I share it between my Pc's and Macbook, the macbook read and write to the Nas woithout problems. You could always format it to HFS+. Connecting to the Nas was easy, you just use Cmd K and enter the address of the Nas and you should have access to it. not sure about Time Machine as I don't use it
 
Wingz said:
My Nas is in fat32 format as I share it between my Pc's and Macbook, the macbook read and write to the Nas woithout problems. You could always format it to HFS+. Connecting to the Nas was easy, you just use Cmd K and enter the address of the Nas and you should have access to it. not sure about Time Machine as I don't use it
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Thanks - that's great.
 
NAS, true network attached storage it won't matter how the storage is formatted. It could even be ext3.

You could use a samba server on the NAS, then access from Windows, Linux and OS X. On OS X you just do Cmd K and connect to it as a networked drive.

Time Machine could be used with NAS (there's a tweak to allow this supposedly) but the problem comes then with network latency and the amount of data needing to be transferred.
 
I have a Time Capsule as my NAS.

I don't bother with Time Machine, so it just appears as a hard drive and I drag stuff on/off :)
 
I just use a WD MyBook Studio 1TB drive attached by Firewire 800.

Incidentally Time Machine has a seed increase in Snow Leopard too - in the region of 50% from the initial backup time which I suspect makes the incremental backups faster too.
 
hi folks

NAS for MBP, i'm starting to understand a little more

i won't necessarily be able to use this for timemachine then? what if you connect directly with a cable?

in theory, could i partition the drive and use one partition as a drag and drop standard HDD, and set the other partition up to use as a backup for timemachine?

i'm looking at the Synology DS

thanks
 
Not implying that only those sort of users use Time Capsule

Just stating that its ideal for such people because its not difficult to set up / use :)
 
Worth adding that this thread is from 2009 :eek:

I now use a DroboPro with 12TB of storage.
 
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