Hey gang,
Ok, so I just acquired an older Thecus N5200 NAS from a friend (the PSU had died on it, and so he bought a new Drobo and gave me the old one if I could find a new PSU for it, which I did on Friday..)
Anyhow, he included 5 1.5TB drives (which are currently building a a RAID 5 array) so I'm trying to start putting together a plan on how to set everything up...
What I have currently:
2009 Mac Pro - right now I have all my iTunes music on here, and all my photos on this machine in iPhoto.
new 2011 Mac Mini - This is going to become my EyeTV TV capture system, and my master iTunes host.
2007 Macbook 2,1 - Just bought a new battery and SSD + RAM for this guy. I basically only use this for web surfing and some light mobile grad school work. I don't keep ANY music or movies or photos on it, but it would be nice if I could access at least the iPhotos library for when I want to post something to the web and attach a photo.
AppleTV - version 1, 160GB - also just got this from my buddy (he bought the new one) and I'm hoping I can somehow stream videos from the Mac mini to it.
What I'd like to do on the NAS is set up folders like:
Movies
Music
Photos
TV
Documents
Projects
and be able to access them from all of my machines.
How do I go about moving my iTunes and iPhoto data over to the NAS, make the Mini be the "master" but still be able to allow the Mac Pro and Macbook to access them? Can I just put the iTunes library and the iPhoto library onto the NAS and make all the machines point to that location as their library? Or will that cause problems since they are different machines with different accounts (even though I used the same name on all of the accounts) ?
Any help is appreciated.
--Mike
Ok, so I just acquired an older Thecus N5200 NAS from a friend (the PSU had died on it, and so he bought a new Drobo and gave me the old one if I could find a new PSU for it, which I did on Friday..)
Anyhow, he included 5 1.5TB drives (which are currently building a a RAID 5 array) so I'm trying to start putting together a plan on how to set everything up...
What I have currently:
2009 Mac Pro - right now I have all my iTunes music on here, and all my photos on this machine in iPhoto.
new 2011 Mac Mini - This is going to become my EyeTV TV capture system, and my master iTunes host.
2007 Macbook 2,1 - Just bought a new battery and SSD + RAM for this guy. I basically only use this for web surfing and some light mobile grad school work. I don't keep ANY music or movies or photos on it, but it would be nice if I could access at least the iPhotos library for when I want to post something to the web and attach a photo.
AppleTV - version 1, 160GB - also just got this from my buddy (he bought the new one) and I'm hoping I can somehow stream videos from the Mac mini to it.
What I'd like to do on the NAS is set up folders like:
Movies
Music
Photos
TV
Documents
Projects
and be able to access them from all of my machines.
How do I go about moving my iTunes and iPhoto data over to the NAS, make the Mini be the "master" but still be able to allow the Mac Pro and Macbook to access them? Can I just put the iTunes library and the iPhoto library onto the NAS and make all the machines point to that location as their library? Or will that cause problems since they are different machines with different accounts (even though I used the same name on all of the accounts) ?
Any help is appreciated.
--Mike