NAS for iTunes, iPhoto and - most important - Time Machine?

[joshhannah]

I did see that, sorry, foot out of mouth... let me rephrase: can anyone tell me *how* to do it? thanks!

 

[tderemigis]

If you try that, please let me know how it is. That be cool to have all libraries synced.

The other thing I am thinking will happen is that iTV will be able to receive the stream from any one Mac to the iTV of everything on the Mac, which will basically mean that we'll need one server Mac and only iTVs. With 802.11n this will be more than viable.
So one Mac mini and 2-3 iTVs for each room. At the price of an iTV this will be nice if it happens as I think.

I got a 250 Western Digital NAS for my Macbook to run iTunes from, but it isn't as speedy as having the files on my laptop.

So then I bought an old 733 Mhz Quicksilver off ebay for cheap about 2 weeks before iTV was previewed. While iTV seems nice, i still want to do DVR. So ive narrowed it down to two possible setups:

-Get and external monitor and USB/FW hub for my Macbook and set it up as a desktop with an EyeTV Hyrbid. Have an iTV in the living room. Only problem is my Macbook won't have 802.11n, but i guess syncing would help.

-Continue to upgrade my qucksilver. Max the RAM, and get an EyeTV 250. Only problem with this is obviously its quite a bit alrger then the ?tv, and even with 1.5gb RAM, i doubt it would be close to the performance of my Macbook.

Even if i do decide to continue on the Quicksilver path, I am not entirely sure how to get set it up to run my music, photos, tv shows, and movies from it. I like VNC, but it just isn't as easy as actually controlling the files on my MB.

 

[pluto2000]

More on Time machine

I recently bought an Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ with 1.5TB of space and I LOVE it. [...] has streaming support (for iTunes and other media) and a whole list of other features. [...]

I can't directly answer your question about Time Machine, but I would imagine that Time Machine would be just fine with a NAS. iPhoto (and Aperture, for what it's worth) works just fine on my NAS! And same goes for iTunes. [...] It's not the point of this thread, but I am just mentioning it because it's the ONLY drawback I can come up with with a NAS.

I also have a ReadyNAS NV+ with 1TB. Indeed it works great with both Aperture (I use it a a "vault") and as an iTunes streaming server. The reason is that both of the above just need access to files and subdirectories accessible with regular AFP (mac) or CIFS (Windows) protocols. The ReadyNAS NV+ also supports NFS, but that is of no use for Macs. Anyway, Time Machine will NOT work because Apple's implementation requires ALL of the following:

1. AFP server (OK here)
2. HFP+ with journaling (can't do on ReadyNAS+)
3. special ACLs to set / unset the read-only bit (may be able to do on ReadyNAS+)

Because of #2 you will NOT be able to run TimeMachine. Get a cheap USB-based external, drive (750 GB for $349 - external seagate), but forget about using the ReadyNAS NV+. There is also NO CHANCE that Infrant will add support for HFP+ or that Apple will change the requirements.