NAS for Mac environment
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I have a client who wants to change their current Segate Black Armor to a new drive for 2 reasons;
Its bit old i guess is more than 3 years, and Accessing files on MAC is painfully slow. I am waiting for them to give me admin access, to see if theres an option to enable afp on it. (not sure if it already supports afp). The slowness on MACs happens mainly on a huge folder of 1TB which is full of images. Windows, it loads faster, fairly easy, on MAC, just to show up the folder list itself takes almost a minuteIf they need to go with a new device, I was thinking about choosing Synology. Had given Qnap to one of my previous client, and he is happy with that. just 5 users for Qnap, basic mapped drive on windows.
But this one has around 30-50 users, 90% on MAC and works with images and documents. Suggestions please.
No central login system as AD or similar, so most probably i need to create user account on the NAS and map the drives. Total capacity of storage looking at 5TB.
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Oh! posted in the wrong section!
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We have 2x DS412+ and 2x large ones (12 bay?)
The heavily used 412 has given us some issues, most of which are firmware related. Just finished updating it again this morning which has (so far) cured our most recent ills.
Overall, I'd recommend them but they're not perfect by any means (and what is, really).
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@MattSpeller Sorry, moving it to the right section now before anyone else post here!
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Mods, please delete this thread!
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@Ambarishrh someone magic'd it for ya
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Everything is in the right place
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That was fast! Thanks guys for moving to the correct section
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High speed and excellent mod!
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@MattSpeller said:
We have 2x DS412+ and 2x large ones (12 bay?)
The heavily used 412 has given us some issues, most of which are firmware related. Just finished updating it again this morning which has (so far) cured our most recent ills.
Overall, I'd recommend them but they're not perfect by any means (and what is, really).
How does it work with MAC?
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Also, once the main drive is set, i need to back this up to a readynas which is also one of their existing system. I think this can be done with some tools installed to watch the folders and move it on daily basis
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@Ambarishrh I've not heard anything bad, other than standard MAC stuff (takes a sec to populate list of folders, magnified over VPN)
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Need to make sure that the device has afp support which I believe gives better performance while accessing it from MAC, plus the regular SMB for windows guys
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If you want an appliance, Synology and Netgear ReadyNAS would be my starting point. Those are my top two picks in this range.
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whoever wants to see the interface of Qnap and Synology
https://demo.synology.com:5001/webman/index.cgi
ACCOUNT: admin
PASSWORD: synologyhttp://demo.qnap.com:8080/
USER NAME: qnap
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@Ambarishrh said:
Need to make sure that the device has afp support which I believe gives better performance while accessing it from MAC, plus the regular SMB for windows guys
Mac officially uses SMB, not AFP. They've dropped AFP officially. I don't believe that they were seeing any performance benefits from it. It's a deprecated technology, but will continue to work for a while. But hardcore Mac users are all on SMB and have been for a while.
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@MattSpeller said:
@Ambarishrh I've not heard anything bad, other than standard MAC stuff (takes a sec to populate list of folders, magnified over VPN)
That's not a Mac issue but a Finder issue. Replace Finder and the Mac has the same speed as elsewhere.
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finder replacement for solving the access speed issues on MAC?
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@Ambarishrh said:
How does it work with MAC?
Macs talk the same protocols as everyone else. SMB first, NFS second and AFP deprecated but included. There is no concept of "storage for Mac" anymore. That's an old idea.
The only thing to be aware of is the Finder issue and that plagues all non-Mac native storage equally.
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@scottalanmiller Any recommended finder alternative?
