I'm looking at setting up a network for my family home and have a few special requirements and so far i think i have sorted most out but looking at a bit of experience on the storage side.
The network will have BT internet going into an Airport Extreme which will provide wifi coverage for Macbook Pro, iPad, 2 iPhones and 2 apple tv's and a Windows based work laptop.
I want to hardwire in a NASBox to the Airport Extreme that will store data.
My worry is accessing it, I need both the Macbook and Windows laptops to be able to read and write to it (probably the same files if office files) and also for the apple tv's to be able to pull music/pics/video from it.
I would also like to be able to back it up/back up to it.
Do you guys with more experience see any issues/problems here? I know first hand that writing to a USB stick on the windows machine means i can't write to it on the Mac without formatting...
Thanks for any help...
Jon
The network will have BT internet going into an Airport Extreme which will provide wifi coverage for Macbook Pro, iPad, 2 iPhones and 2 apple tv's and a Windows based work laptop.
I want to hardwire in a NASBox to the Airport Extreme that will store data.
My worry is accessing it, I need both the Macbook and Windows laptops to be able to read and write to it (probably the same files if office files) and also for the apple tv's to be able to pull music/pics/video from it.
I would also like to be able to back it up/back up to it.
Do you guys with more experience see any issues/problems here? I know first hand that writing to a USB stick on the windows machine means i can't write to it on the Mac without formatting...
Thanks for any help...
Jon