Which Nas For Mac
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In need of a central storage unit for our Mac graphics and video department. The video department won't be working off the storage unit live with their videos but using it mostly for storage of files. However, the graphics department works on their files on the storage unit live.
What should I get as far as having a networked storage device for these Macs to work on? A Mac file server?
A NAS device? Any specific brands or models you all would recommend? I'm wanting to get as much possible space for them as well as room to grow. (Preferrably 10-15+TB). There are handful of solutions that actually work for OS X. My last job was supervising the largest Mac customer in the world so Im talking from real frontline experience 1. Acronis Access Connect running on Windows Server 2012 R2.
This is the best, provides an AFP connection to a Windows server share and is bullet proof reliable and very fast. Solves the issue out the box. Costs a 'reasonable' amount but delivers in spades 2. Open Source server for.nix.
Use v 4.2 or higher to ensure you are getting the latest vfsfruits module to combat file traversal performance issues 3. Helios EtherShare - very niche, but very good. Netatalk - not updated since this time in 2014.not really where you wan to be.
I'd suggest looking at Drobo and QNAP if you're looking at a NAS device. Both have some Mac features, including, as noted previously, Time Machine support, if you're looking for that as a bonus feature. I deployed a smaller QNAP box for a client in a mixed Mac/PC environment where they were using it for short-term storage of picture files for processing and printing (was at a photo lab), as well as some file backups from another location of theirs. You can also spin up a Linux/BSD box and run Samba or NFS on it.
Brendan Pitstop NZ wrote: there is such a thing as a mac file server (ignorance) they are just files - so any NAS will do, take your pick. The fact that it is mac's accessing it is not really relevant in my opinion, I repeat they are just files so usual requirements as you shop for a NAS - security considerations, storage size, RAID, speed etc Im guessing you mean 'no such thing as a Mac file server'? Well unfortunately Mac file server solutions are very specific because the Mac OS handles network shares and network search in a unique way So picking any NAS will definitely not do The Finder doesnt get along with Windows Server, older implementations of Netatalk don't allow network search and have performance issues and some NAS units are just rotten with Macs and permissions (yes Im talking to you Netgear). There are handful of solutions that actually work for OS X. My last job was supervising the largest Mac customer in the world so Im talking from real frontline experience 1. Acronis Access Connect running on Windows Server 2012 R2. This is the best, provides an AFP connection to a Windows server share and is bullet proof reliable and very fast.
Solves the issue out the box. Costs a 'reasonable' amount but delivers in spades 2. Open Source server for.nix.
Use v 4.2 or higher to ensure you are getting the latest vfsfruits module to combat file traversal performance issues 3. Helios EtherShare - very niche, but very good. Netatalk - not updated since this time in 2014.not really where you wan to be. Scott Alan Miller wrote: toby wells wrote: The Finder doesnt get along with Windows Server, older implementations of Netatalk don't allow network search and have performance issues and some NAS units are just rotten with Macs and permissions (yes Im talking to you Netgear)It's a Finder bug and not related to Natatalk, it impacts SMB and NFS as well. The finder bug mainly affects Windows and pre 4.2 Samba The problems in Netatalk are separate issues because it hasn't been updated in so long. There are some hacks to get around these but nothing you would use in production. JosiahS wrote: In need of a central storage unit for our Mac graphics and video department.
The graphics department works on their files on the storage unit live. Seems that far far far too many otherwise knowledgeable techs do not even know that - officially - Adobe does NOT support saving files directly to ANY network storage/network-mounted sharepoint. They did only with their now-discontinued VersionCue product. Please see my post here: Their products are engineered to expect and require the kinds of access times that only direct-attached storage provides, they make no allowances for the fact of the additional latency introduced with network-mounted volumes. I don't intend to speak to a quality (correctly set up, tuned and maintained) SAN and how that might or might not work, but that's also not what's being discussed here. DavidCSG wrote: JosiahS wrote: In need of a central storage unit for our Mac graphics and video department.
The graphics department works on their files on the storage unit live. Seems that far far far too many otherwise knowledgeable techs do not even know that - officially - Adobe does NOT support saving files directly to ANY network storage/network-mounted sharepoint. They did only with their now-discontinued VersionCue product. Please see my post here: Their products are engineered to expect and require the kinds of access times that only direct-attached storage provides, they make no allowances for the fact of the additional latency introduced with network-mounted volumes. I don't intend to speak to a quality (correctly set up, tuned and maintained) SAN and how that might or might not work, but that's also not what's being discussed here. No real SAN I've heard of supports mac.
They had their own xsan a while ago, but I think they gave up on supporting groups of people using their hardware, and killed their servers and storage. Now people use mac minis for 'servers', and presumably usb drives for storage.
Mac Mini Nas
Joerg Lenneis wrote: @toby wells: What kind of problems does netatalk have? Is that restricted to newer versions of Mac OSX? Otherwise, netatalk is the only free solution that natively supports AFP. I am using it without problems on a couple of servers, no big numbers of users though. I have not had any problems so far. Its more a series of small gremlins you just don't get with Acronis Access Connect on Windows server Yes predominantly with newer versions of OS X and apps thats save files as pseudo pkg files like Keynote and Omnigraffle Its also a bit sluggish on file browsing and copy but this again is down to the almost glacial speed of development. It was an OK solution but hasn't got the scale or reliability for enterprise which is where the OP started.