Nas synology for mac?
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- KarlFreeman
Hey,
Looking at getting myself a synology nas ( http://www.synology.com/enu/prod… ) with a couple 1.5tb seagate barracuda's ( Which are a great price at the moment http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obi… )
Has anyone had any problems with these and macs, or even any experience with these at all?
Cheers
- lambsy0
what's your budget? how much do these puppies cost
- KarlFreeman0
My budget really is up to about 400/500 ( Cheaper would be great ) I'm looking to get a 4 bay nas for me and my flatmates, were all on macs and currently have an old g5 in the living room with a couple external hardrives plugged in. Looking to get all that consolidated on to the network cutting the g5 tower + external harddrives out of the picture.
I've looked at a drobo but I don't think I need a true raid system as I'm really looking for a JBOD set up as the files are mostly videos and music really.
Nightmare looking at the hundreds of solutions out there just wondered weather anyone has got a good mac nas set up?
- KarlFreeman0
This was my front runner ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Network-… ) but then a couple negative reviews has me question how reliable it is.
- welded0
I know you said you've looked at them, but we use a Drobo at work and it works well. It's really just a backup/standard file server but I've heard of folks who've set it up to feed data to things like Xboxes and the like. It's also extensible via apps: http://drobo.com/droboapps/
- shitehawke0
Karl, I was looking to get me a low cost NAS a while ago. I went of the ethernet lacie network space. Its grand and cheap (€150) but I wouldn't be doing anything too intensive with it as its fairly slow. But i was researching a lot before hand.
The synology ds 109 or 209 get very good reviews in a lot of places, and paired with a couple of seagates should be fine. I've read a lot of mixed review on the icybox nas enclosures, either people say they're great or complete shit, seems to be very little middle ground. QNAP also seem to have a good reputation, but the model I was lookign at was single enclosure TS-109.
Would be interested in any other suggestions.
- honest0
how'd they get their favicon to scroll like that?
- KarlFreeman0
Yeah, the icybox does seem to have very mixed reviews!
Suggestions would be great though.I think its between drobo + droboshare or Synology DS409+.
- shitehawke0
honest, this is the code on their page:
- shitehawke0
Urk!
<link rel="icon" href="http://www.synology.com/animated_favicon.gif" type="image/gif" >
- shitehawke0
Also Karl, shop around for the seagate drives, pixmania had a special on them recently:
http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/…- Looks like I owe you 18 pounds. A good find Cheers!KarlFreeman
- ribit0
I have a CS407 I want to sell (4x1TB drives, using RAID 5).
I've used DS-106e, DS-107 too, no problems so far.. you can use either AFP or SMB to mount the shares on Mac.
- KarlFreeman0
Just in case anyone has a similar question I eventually went for the synology ds 409+, Great read and write speed + bittorrent client and soon to be a much better OS.
- spmitch0
build your own - freeNAS
I have had one running for a while now runs great with mac and ubuntu