It's basically the setup I've got using a 2008 iMac connected to a 4 bay Drobo using Firewire 800.
If your going with a Drobo then plan your partitions, as I had issues due to Timemachine wanting to take over the whole partitions. So had to give each timemachine it's own partition so they play nicely. I started with 2 x 500GB drives and now have 2 x 2TB drives. You can resize mac partitions but on a Drobo you can move then or shift them which is why I created 4 x 4TB partitions then resized. It does mean I can't make any larger than 4TB but I accepted. Partition 1) iMac Timemachine Setup as 4TB Resized to 500GB Slowly grown to 1TB Partition 2) MacBookPro Timemachine Setup as 4TB Resized to 350GB Slowly grown to 1TB Partition 3) iTunes & iPhoto Setup as 4TB Resized to 200GB Slowly grown to 2TB Partition 3) fileshare Setup as 4TB Resized to 100GB Slowly grown to 500GB John On 17 September 2013 20:02, Steve Davies <[email protected]>wrote: > Alastair, > > Thanks for that, I should have said that part of my thinking was to use > Thunderbolt's speed capability, at least I now know it can be done, I will > have to find out what the pros and cons of the various Thunderbolt storage > options are, then take the plunge. > > Kind regards, > > Steve. > > On 17 Sep 2013, at 19:55, Alastair Weller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > You can have either library on secondary disks (physically connected or > remote) but performance will depend on the connection speed > > You could use an external Thunderbolt enclosure which would offer you the > ability for drive redundancy and expansion. > > Alastair > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 17 Sep 2013, at 19:50, Steve Davies <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > I have a 2008 iMac which I updated with 4 GB of Ram and a 1TB hard drive. > > > > I have almost 2000 music albums and 24,000 images in iPhoto / Aperture. > > > > The system is getting a little sluggish and I am about to buy a new > replacement iMac. > > > > When I get the new machine I want to limit the amount of data I hold on > the hard disk buy purchasing a Drobo, (Or equivalent.) and have my iTunes > and iPhoto libraries funning on the Drobo? > > > > Questions. > > > > 1.) Is what I am proposing, (To manage these libraries off the main > machine.) possible / realistic? > > > > 2.) If the answer to 1.) Is yes, then is Drobo my best option? > > > > * I used the name Drobo, as it is the only system I have heard of, as I > understand it the Drobo has built in redundancy / swappable hard drives, > that ensures you never loose any data even if a drive fails. > > > > Any guidance here would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Steve. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
