On 27 Mar 2012, at 20:28 , Chris Murphy wrote: > I wrote: >> Alternatively, you might consider an eSATA enclosure instead. > > Still yet another option is a NAS. QNAP and ReadyNAS come to mind. Also > FreeNAS/TrueNAS are possibilities, based on FreeBSD so you'd get ZFS > including RAIDZ capability, and built-in SMART monitoring, lots of other > features. At least the FreeNAS/TrueNAS products are using a recent version > of Netatalk for AFP which supports Time Machine network backups. I have > tested it in a VM, works nicely, reasonably straightforward.
Be very wary of any consumer-level NAS. The ones I've seen have abysmal speeds, under the performance of USB2 or in some cases even slower than an SMB mount of a USB2 drive. Seriously, I've seen them at 3-4MB/s. Something running freeNAS or something with a gigabit card and Jumbo frames support should be very fast. > I'm seeing NAS with fast single drives or striped drives going just over > 105MB/s over gigabit ethernet. I'm not sure if these are people using jumbo > frames or not. They would have to be to get those speeds over ethernet, no? -- Transvestite: A guy who likes to eat, drink and be Mary. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
