SUPERSYNC ITUNES MEDIA MANAGER QNAP MAC OS
SUPERSYNC ITUNES MEDIA MANAGER QNAP MAC

I was hoping to buy an iTV, but the chance that it will do exactly what I want is pretty small.

SUPERSYNC ITUNES MEDIA MANAGER QNAP MAC

I'm buying a Mac mini for this purpose (along with being a media center). It's not the point of this thread, but I am just mentioning it because it's the ONLY drawback I can come up with with a NAS. The only thing I haven't quite figured out yet is that I want to create a subset of my iTunes library to keep on my laptop (for travel). It's really awesome having a NAS because I can access it from any of my computers at home, and I have peace of mind with it (thanks to RAID). iPhoto (and Aperture, for what it's worth) works just fine on my NAS! And same goes for iTunes. I can't directly answer your question about Time Machine, but I would imagine that Time Machine would be just fine with a NAS. Otherwise, it's plugged in via Gigabit Ethernet. It even works with a wireless bridge, which I use sometimes to connect it to my network. It holds 4 Seagate SATA drives (500GB each), has a great control panel, has streaming support (for iTunes and other media) and a whole list of other features. The form factor alone is really awesome (it's small and the finish/style even looks kind of like a Mac Pro). I recently bought an Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ with 1.5TB of space and I LOVE it. or would I be better of with another solution, like one monster 4 bay firewire DAS, and just learn to live with the wiring ( )? So, does anybody know if Time Machine (and possibly also iPhoto and even iTunes) works on volumes mounted from a NAS? Possibly even the above mentioned NAS? Having a laptop, which is restricted to one internal disk, I'm looking for an (easy and practical) solution for accessing an(y) external disk(s) from my MacBook. Now, I can probably live with my iTunes and iPhoto libraries on my internal disk, especially if I get some easy way to store other stuff, but thinking ahead I would love whatever solution I end up with to support Time Machine.

SUPERSYNC ITUNES MEDIA MANAGER QNAP MAC OS

I don't have a Mac to use as a server (the above mentioned 7500 is just too old, IMO) but could probably get an old B&W or something, but I don't have an obvious place to have it and would have to invest a bit in wiring (or another wireless base), so I'm leaning on the NAS as my best option.īut, and there's always a but, isn't there, even though the NAS I've got my eye on, the Synology Disk Station DS-101j, which has room for one internal disk and a couple of external USB2 drives (right?), is said to fully support Mac OS X, I suspect this means for setup and as a file server, and that the Photo and Backup solutions are based on some proprietary systems and not what I want. Having one solution for both my girlfriend's any my own machines would also be great. I have a couple of external HDs, but they are filled and I'm getting tired of the wires, and have started looking for other options, and it probably boils down to either setting up an old Mac as a file server or get a NAS.

I've also started ripping DVDs, and even though I'm quite happy with relatively moderate bitrates, the GBs just fly away, etc, etc.

Also my iPhoto library has out-grown the magical '1 DVD' size, and when I get my new DSLR I guess the need for space will just increase. My iTunes library are steadily growing (even if I just use for CD-rips and re-encoded for files I get elsewhere (e.g. I'm not doing anything extremely resource demanding, so my only issue (which I share with a lot of laptop owners, I guess) is: I need more storage space. I have a MacBook (coming from an iBook and befare that a Pismo), love the portability and don't know if I've ever going to get another desktop (my last one was a PowerMac 7500!).

Long explanation, (potentially) short question at the bottom.

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