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Recent content by roofyroo

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    NAS for Mac Photography Editing

    Noted from QNAS Note: It is NOT suggested to connect to the same iSCSI target with two different clients (iSCSI initiators) at the same time, unless you are using clustering technologies. Otherwise, this may lead to data crash or disk damage. Has anyone had experience of this? I have 2...
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    NAS for Mac Photography Editing

    Cheers for the info! I went with the QNAP TS-419P+ and 4 Seagate green drives of 2TB with RAID5. 1 drive is very slow although eventually shows GOOD on the status - I've sent this back and ordered from another supplier to avoid the same batch. Issues or annoyances I've had so far involves...
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    NAS for Mac Photography Editing

    Is there a big difference between purchasing the SATA II or SATA III HDDs when using the QNAPs, specifically the TS-419P+ I mentioned above? The Seagate ST2000DL003 2TB is around $80 which is more affordable for my budget when buying 4 of them. They do seem cheaper than other brands for some...
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    NAS for Mac Photography Editing

    Also checking HDDs the business list compatibility are $200 for 24/7 while SOHO are more 8-9 hours days. For example is this 8 hours usage and then 16 hours sleeping?
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    NAS for Mac Photography Editing

    My business is still relatively small with only 2 Mac users connecting to edit images. I'd like to keep cost naturally as low as possible - $1k give or take. Looking at the QNAP TS-419P+ and adding in a decent backup device. - Just checking out reliable and compatible HDDs. Are there...
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    NAS for Mac Photography Editing

    Hoping a few people can give their opinion on the general direction to go for purchasing a NAS. Currently using a single bay 2TB WD firewire 800 attached device which is about to run out of space. Primary use for new NAS - storing large images for direct read/write (RAW files around...
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