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Just reading the HP microserver thread I'm starting to think maybe I should get one of those... I recently built a silent ITX machine and have a single 1TB HDD plugged in the back of it, with my photos stored on another HDD I need to plug in somewhere. I also have a MBA which I view photos on from (normally first) and it gives me the bad habit of having two sets of photos and edits lying around...

I'm thinking instead of having a system whereby I have some form of NAS attached to both machines and editing locally before storing on the NAS. I'm not sure what I want though so thought I would come here for some inspiration.

Does editing from a remote location cause issues with speed (using wifi to connect)? I'd also be looking at storing all my films on the server as well so would want probably 2x drives at a minimum so I can get about 4TB of data (or backup 2TBs) and reasonably cheap and easy to set up - Drobo - WD NAS - etc?
 
whatever you choose to store your files on id always pick a wired (pref gigabit) ethernet.

you can do it over wifi but it wont set the world alight in peformance.

a nas or microserver would do the job, microserver would be cheaper over a good 4-5 bay nas.
 
thanks to neil i ended up buying a micro server because of that thread although wont be getting it till christmas it will more then do my requirements

i also bought a seperate back up device with 2 hard drives which will be set as raid 5 i think neil will probaly correct me just for the sole purpose of backing the mac up with 2 hard drives in the unit both as backup in case the other drive fails

as for the micro server all the pics on one drive again raid 5 and the other will be used for films , music and anything else
 
I use my microserver for backup and having shared folders with things in we may want access to from anything on the home network.

Windows home server 2011 backs up our PCs without me needing to do anything.

I have the shared folders set to guest access so anything on my home network can see them (and delete content!) so they only contain copies of what is held elsewhere. The Pictures folder has whatever jpegs we want to view on the TV etc. Similarly the video and music folders have stuff we may wish to play on whatever is capable of playing them.

As a second backup the server is backed up to a USB drive kept off site.

I only edit pictures on my PC not over the network then add anything for sharing to the server folders.

Works for me :)
 
wegotitugetit said:
i also bought a seperate back up device with 2 hard drives which will be set as raid 5 i think neil will probaly correct me just for the sole purpose of backing the mac up with 2 hard drives in the unit both as backup in case the other drive fails
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RAID1 (mirroring). RAID5 needs at least 3 disks.
 
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