Dan also said the Dobro was a poor network performer. It may be that local storage is best.
I wonder if a Dobro would be fine for regular use, and then just connect it locally for backups. On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The iMac is going to be your absolute best solution, iTunes will allow you > to share the music between computers, it'll be sweet. Anything else will be > a PITA to setup and anything in your price range probably won't work out > real well bandwidth-wise. > > About a month ago I was at a TV station in South Carolina training them on > their shared storage solution. At one point we're running network > connection tests back to the server from the client systems. Most of them > were normal at around 100MB/s, one is dog slow, like 1MB/s. It turned out > the editor had a Drobo mapped to what should have been one of our drive > letters. I was significantly under-impressed with what the Drobo was > capable of. I guess in local mode they're okay but over the network - > gross... > > -Curt > > Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 13:41:34 -0700 > From: Brian Toscano <brian.tosc...@gmail.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Mac NAS options > Message-ID: > <CACnCPhmKRSbb236F8xC3nQu6_hQzNt1=l2m6xaq+kog7h2v...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Ed, > > Currently I have local hard drives connected to my laptop with FireWire and > maintain 2 sets of the same files, one lossless and one AAC128. The AAC128 > files are stored on my laptop hard drive. The lossless files are on the > external drives. > > I would like to get the hard drives off my desk to save space & noise, and > have one less cable attached to my laptop. I would also like to eliminate > the AAC128 files. > > I would like to have a NAS that connects via GigE to my WiFi router. That > way I can stream the audio files to my laptop, which streams them to an > Apple Airport Express wirelessly. I have a pair of JBL studio monitors > connected to the Airport Express. For times when I want to make a backup > of the NAS attached storage, I figured I could use a patch cable and do the > backup over the network to backup drives attached to my laptop. > > Perhaps the easiest thing to do is to get an iMac with a 2TB internal > drive. That way I wouldn't worry about the portability and wouldn't have > as many external drives! That would be a 5-7 year solution :-) > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
