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  1. J

    Suddenly unable to use Time Machine with NAS drive

    Early last week I noticed that Time Machine had suddenly stopped backing up to my WD NAS drive. There were no recent changes that occurred before the problem began as far as I am aware. Nothing in my physical or network environment changed, I had not installed any new software, and I am not...
  2. S

    Cheap NAS drive options that works with Macs and PCs?

    I'm currently doing a lot of rendering in Blender and Fusion, all to EXR sequences. My main machine is a Mac Studio M1 Ultra, and my second machine is a PC I built in 2012 but recently upgraded with an RTX 3060 card, and the main drive is an internal SSD, plus an external USB 3 SSD for the...
  3. dawindmg08

    Anyone here using a LUN+iSCSI for Music/Photo libraries on a NAS?

    Recently upgraded the i5 Mac mini I'd been using as a music & photo server to an M1 model. One of the things I lost was hard drive space -- went from 2TB to 256GB on the new model (great price on it, couldn't pass up the deal). Right now I have an SSD plugged into a Thunderbolt port that holds...
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    How to format a WD Red Plus 6TB NAS HDD drive as an external drive for Mac

    Hi. I just bought a WD Red Plus 6TB NAS drive. My intention is to use it as a normal storage disk with my MacBook Pro using an adapter to USB. I chose a NAS drive as they are supposed to have a superior build to "normal" drives. They for example include sensors to sense shaking in order to...