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  1. Giuanniello

    MacMini vs NAS to play music and video

    Hello everybody, I have a NAS running twin 2TB drives in RAID1 configuration, I have a movies folder through which I stream them to a couple AppleTV4 but it's quite complicated, I thought I might get a Mini instead of upgrading the hard drives in the NAS (which is almost full and a couple 3TB...
  2. cyberblood

    Alternative of Photos?

    Hi everybody, Many of you would answer fast, but in the reality the answer is not so simple. I need a good alternative of Photos for macOS. What I need is: - nice preview of the pictures - App that will associate with all picture's extension .jpg .png .gif ... and will run when click on picture...
  3. O

    2 Macs - "best of both worlds" NAS / DAS - AFP vs NFS re permissions

    Our family has 2 iMacs and I want us to be able to use either one of them and have access to all of our files the same way as if they were on a local drive / DAS. So, I bought a QNAP Thunderbolt NAS (perhaps overkill ;-) because that's exactly one of the scenarios they advertise (having a NAS...
  4. D

    Setup a NAS within OSX / MacOS?

    G'day, I have a 2011 Corei5 MacMini hooked up to the TV, currently running Mac OS X El Capitan. I already have a 2TB USB Drive hanging out the back of it, and wondered if its possible to set it up as a NAS to share to both Windows and Mac computers. is there some software that will help share...
  5. L

    Mercury Accelsior E2 + Synology DS1817 | eSATA Compatibility

    Im looking to buy the Mercury Accelsior E2 SSD from Macsales.com to upgrade my Mac Pro 4,1. Does anyone know if it is compatible with the Synology DS1817' eSATA ports? Synology uses the eSATA ports to daisy chain additional DS units. I want to connect it directly to my MP for faster transfer...
  6. C

    APFS and NAS (Synology)

    Hi, Pardon my question if this seems too basic... I am currently using a NAS Synology to share and store all my files (pictures, movies mainly). What will be the impact of upgrading to High Sierra? Will it still be compatible or should I wait Synology to release a new file system? Chris
  7. rhett7660

    File Structure of Audio and Video Files Recommendations

    Hello, I am in the process of setting up a new NAS box and I wanted to see if there was a better way to handle all of my digital music and video files in terms of file structure on the NAS box. Currently I have the following: MultimediaMaster\Artist Name\Album Title\Tracks...
  8. CoastalOR

    Drive Speed for a NAS?

    I'm thinking of getting a diskless Synology DS416play NAS to act primarily (for now) as a Plex server for my movies. Here are the drives I'm considering: WD Red NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM WD Red Pro NAS Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM Will the 5400 RPM perform adequately or do I need the 7200...
  9. SouthernTeuchter

    Best ATV app for playing music from NAS?

    I use Infuse to play all my movies & TV shows from my QNAP NAS and it works brilliantly. Sadly, it doesn't offer a music playback capability. I can use QNAP's own QMusic app - but it's pretty clunky. I'm reluctant to set a Plex server capability up for just music. I know Plex can do movies...
  10. baccusapp

    Baccus - Reliable backups to your NAS and External Drives

    Introducing Baccus - a flexible, fast and efficient backup application for your Mac. Baccus simplifies and manages multiple backups to external drives and NAS systems. Imagine arriving at work and, without lifting a finger, have your computer start backing up your files. Simply connect to your...
  11. IBICO

    Move home folder to ISCSI drive

    I setup an ISCSI drive at home for a secure backup raid, but also because of disk space. I run the mac pro 2013 and are a part time photographer. So use it for photo editing. The Synology RS816 is setup with normal shared folder, my dropbox/onedrive/googledrive/synologydrive, ISCSI with...
  12. E

    Indexing A Networked Drive

    Hi All, Not sure if this is the correct place for this post but I apologise if it's not. Nonetheless, I'm sure somebody here will have a solution for me. I've just set up a Synology NAS and I am trying to force spotlight to index my NAS. I have tried using the following command: sudo mdutil...
  13. G

    Can the Photo's library be moved to a NAS drive?

    My MacBook Pro 250GB SSD is full and its mostly photos and videos. Is it possible to point the Photo's app to store its library on a NAS drive? This would release 3/4 of my local Mac storage and still allow me to use the Photo's app as my interface which I like.
  14. Jay-Jacob

    Automator failure connect NAS shares

    Hi Yosemite and El Capitan I connect my WD Cloud share using automator without any problem. Then I upgrade to Sierra and it won't work properly. When I try connect 2 my WD Cloud NAS in same automator program (this my usual one). First WD Cloud will connect and 2nd WD Cloud always fail to...
  15. ItsAShaunParty

    NAS Showdown: QNAP v. Synology! There will be blood!

    Hey All! Not sure if this has been covered but, well, let's pretend "no." I am an ex-Apple employee who has been out of the circle for a while. I need a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device. I use a Macbook11,3. Most of my needs for the extra space/cloud is back-up. But it would be nice to...
  16. speedingant

    AutoMounter your NAS Shares - Native macOS App

    Introducing AutoMounter, a powerful menu item designed to automatically mount your network shares. We wanted our network shares always accessible and ready to use. If you've got a NAS appliance, a server at work, or even shared folders on your other computers, you'll know how time consuming it...
  17. Daleyelama

    10GBe speed issues on macOs Sierra with Myricom 10G-PCIE-8C-T

    We are running 4 MacPro's 5.1 on a NAS via 10GBe Myricom 10G-PCIE-8C-T network adapter. After upgrading to macOs Sierra there was a maximum speed of 90 MB/s available. Myricom told us, it's a driver problem. But that's simply not true. We wrote a script which increases the speed to 1000 MB/s...
  18. S

    Conversion when uploading from Photos to NAS

    Hi! I have just uploaded some photos from the Photos library on my Mac to a Synology NAS. Some of the files were jpeg and some were RAW (CR2). To my surprise, all the photos ended up as jpeg on the NAS. I have uploaded CR2 files from a Windows computer, where such conversion into jpeg did not...
  19. S

    Best strategy or process for storing photos?

    Hi guys! I have a MacBook Pro with a 500 GB SSD. It's filling up quickly, and I am looking at getting a NAS (Synology or QNAP), and moving all my photos over there. However, I understand that linking the Photos app to a NAS library doesn't always work seamlessly, and can mess up things in the...
  20. A

    New User - accessing my NAS

    Hi all, I am a new user expecting delivery of my first Mac this week. I currently use a windows PC and have a NAS attached. Will I be able to access the NAS to read and write or will I have to reformat the NAS drives. Its a Zyxel NAS with 2 x 1TB drives set up as Jbod. My ITunes library is...