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DigitalRelish

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Currently, I keep my actively-working-on photos on my iMac's internal drive. Once they're done I'll move them onto my Drobo which is directly connected via FireWire so I can still see them in Lightroom should I need to do the odd tweak here or there.

I'm looking to expand the amount of storage I've got available as well as consolidate it by replacing the Drobo with a Synology DS413 or something similar.

Couple of questions:

1) will I still be able to see the images on the NAS in Lightroom if they're reference in a LR catalogue which resides on my iMac?

2) I'm intending to connect my iMac to the NAS via powerline adapters. Will 500Mbps be fast enough for my use?

Thanks
 
DigitalRelish said:
1) will I still be able to see the images on the NAS in Lightroom if they're reference in a LR catalogue which resides on my iMac?
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Yes. It's only the catalogue that needs to be on local storage.

DigitalRelish said:
2) I'm intending to connect my iMac to the NAS via powerline adapters. Will 500Mbps be fast enough for my use?
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Unlikely. I have a couple of 500Mbps Powerline adapters. I get 60Mbit/sec bidirectional - you don't get anywhere near the max speeds with the adapters. I use them for streaming videos - where that's plenty of bandwidth. I wouldn't access files across them - waaaay too slow (IMHO).
 
all of my lightroom raw are on my nas/server (previously a synology, now a microserver), it works well.

however that is over gigabit ethernet.

if you can move your nas nearer to your computer and have a gigabit switch, then use the powerlines to connect to the rest of the network (if still applicable)
 
The HP micro server does look interesting, but the I'm virtually sold on the Synology and the features it offers plus the lack of needing to fiddle so much. I fell out of building PCs many moons ago and haven't looked back since!

Here's where my (lack of) knowledge of networking fails me. The gigabit switch sounds like a feasible idea. I need to have powerline adapters with AC pass-through so I've been looking at 500Mbps kits. I could physically locate the NAS in the same room as my iMac. The Synology wouldn't be deafening would it?

So, the proposed set-up would then be iMac connected to gigabit switch in the same room as the Synology NAS, the switch connected to the router via 500Mbps powerline adapters. Everything else would be able to access the NAS via powerline or wifi?
 
DigitalRelish said:
So, the proposed set-up would then be iMac connected to gigabit switch in the same room as the Synology NAS, the switch connected to the router via 500Mbps powerline adapters. Everything else would be able to access the NAS via powerline or wifi?
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Yes. Your link from one point to another is dictated by the lowest speed hop between the two. As long as you are happy with that then :thumbs:
 
Any suggestions for the quickest way to transfer a few TB of files from the Drobo to the DiskStation? It's going to take forever over ethernet!
 
Shouldn't take too long over gigabit Ethernet, if they're both Ethernet only you don't really have much choice. Unless the drobo is USB then you could plug it in the back of the synology and use its web interface file browser. If its usb2 gigabit Ethernet should be faster.
 
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The Drobo is Firewire or USB2. It's currently connected to my iMac via Firewire. If I connect it to the DiskStation via USB2:

1) can I get the two to exchange data without going via the iMac?
2) would I need to disconnect the Drobo from my iMac.

Are you referring to the File Station for the web interface file browser?

The Storage Manager in DSM is telling me that it's verifying hard disks in the background (performing data scrubbing) as well as running Parity Consistency Check which it says may affect system performance.

Also, the DiskStation defaulted to Synology Hybrid RAID during set-up. Is it worth sticking with it or switching to RAID 5?
 
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