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    High speed NAS

    Thanks for you're reply. Which models do you recommend out of these three brands?
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    High speed NAS

    I'm looking for a NAS that will be used in a Graphic Design and Web Design Studio. Our files are usually large, and we have a number of Apple Macs that will need to access the NAS for large photos and Adobe files. We are looking for a NAS that can do RAID 5, to give us speed and performance...
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    How to Buy a NAS short version

    Good Article. I see your point with RAID. When we had a server before we had our NAS the IT company that use to service it always had us to believe that it was necessary to have RAID for redundancy. I understand that RAID is not backup and I agree it is better to have good backup. We are...
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    Synology or Thecus

    After researching NAS boxes on google, I have narrowed my choice down to two brands. The Nas boxes I have chosen are; Synology 209 Synology 210j Synology 410j Thecus N4100 Pro Thecus M3200 Pro. The NAS will be used for business use, for a small Graphic Design and Web Design business. I...
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    BlackArmor NAS 110

    I have a Maxtor Shared Storage II which has a 500GB hard drive. The drive is starting to get full, and I'm going to have to buy a new NAS with either 1TB or 2TB. I've been looking at the BlackArmor NAS 110, I was just wanting to know how well the BlackArmour works in an Apple mac and PC...
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    Mac Mini Server with snow Leopard server vs Netgear readyNAS

    We use to have a IBM Server, which we used as central storage and as a Exchange Mail Server which also had VPN. We replaced the server with a Maxtor Storage II, and went back to pop email. We miss having the server, and if we had the Mac Mini server, we would use as a mail server and stop...
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    Mac Mini Server with snow Leopard server vs Netgear readyNAS

    I'm looking for central storage for our business. We run a design studio, and have two iMacs and two PC's. We were looking at the Netgear ReadyNas, but Apple have just released the Mac Mini with snow leopard server, they have replaced the superdrive with two 500gb hard drives. What we like...
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    NAS or SL Server

    No theres no applications I need that wont run on a Mac or a NAS. How much storage do we need, 1TB For backup on the server, we were using a Tape drive, problems with the tape drive was, first it is slow and second we can't replace the hard drives with larger hard drives without replacing...
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    NAS or SL Server

    We were using an IBM 206m server with SBS 2003 for our business, which has got to expensive to maintain and been Microsoft is slow and a pain to use. I'm wondering weather to replace it with a NAS or a Mac mini and Snow leopard server? I'm thinking a NAS would be easier to manage and maintain...
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    ethernet and wireless network issue

    I have just upgraded two of our iMacs with the new Snow Leopard 10.6. I'm having a some trouble connecting one of the printers which is connected to our wireless networks. Our office is upstairs where have the macs, we have an ethernet connection plugged into a switch and Maxtor shared...
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    BlackArmor NAS 440 on a mac network

    Thanks Tim, On the Seagate website it states Supports Windows® XP, Windows Vista®, and Mac OS® X 10.4.11 or later. But if the review says it has no Apple Time Machine support of Mac OS backup client and it also doesn't support AFP, then I'll think I stay clear of Seagate BlackArmor. The...
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    BlackArmor NAS 440 on a mac network

    I am looking for a new network storage device. I am considering the BlackArmor NAS 44 2TB, I wanting to know how well it runs with Apple mac, my other consideration is to wait until Mac OS X snow leopard server comes out, and purchasing an old mac mini and running that has my network server...
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    Question on speed

    Thanks Tim, I fixed the problem. I connected the Maxtor shared storage onto the network using ethernet and a switch. The airport I left downstairs plugged into the printers and adsl2 modem.
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    Question on speed

    We have a small design studio setup in our house. Our setup is two Apple iMacs upstairs in our studio, and one Apple airport extreme (with the new Simultaneous dual-band support) downstairs with our Maxtor Shared storage 2, modem, one wide format printer and two photocopiers plugged into it...
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    Apple Extreme fast as my gigabyte connection

    Hello all, I was using a gigabyte switch, maxtor shared drive and ethernet to connect two iMacs and have central storage, which worked well and was fast. Today I removed the gigabyte switch and replaced it with a Apple Exteme which has the new dual band. I plugged the Maxtor directly into the...
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