NAS for Windows XP/7 PC's and Mac OSX?

[tweeker]

Hi all,

I am a MAC newb and just received my Air over the weekend.

I am trying to figure out a NAS setup for sharing drives between several different computers. 2 Windows 7 PC's, 1 Windows XP Laptop, and 1 Macbook Air.

I have 2 1TB drives that i am looking to implement into a RAID 0 environment for sharing this data throughout the house.

What is the best NAS of going about this?

I want to make sure that whatever I decide to do it will share the drives between both the MAC and the PC's.

Any help is very much appreciated. I appreciate your patience with a MAC newb.

-tweeker

 

[fhall1]

I have a Synology DS211 with two 2TB drives serving to 3 Macs, 3 PCs, and my Western Digital TV Live +....works great.

 

[tweeker]

Hi,

Thanks very much I appreciate it!

 

[kkleo]

I know that both Synology and QNAP are capable of that as in running safely for both win and mac.

synology ds211j is a good one to start with if you ask me.

 

[DustinT]

You should never, ever, ever run Raid 0 for storage or backups. Ever...

Run Raid 1, 5, 6, 01 or 10... but never Raid 0. It's data suicide.