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Need for a Network External Drive
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It doesn't say it will work with a Mac OS in the tech info.
If you already have a drive laying around I recommend this thing. It can be found at brick and mortar radioshack stores on clearance for $40. It has worked great for me.
http://www.ximeta.com/web/products/ndenclosure1_en.php
RadioShack link
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2407183&cp
If you already have a drive laying around I recommend this thing. It can be found at brick and mortar radioshack stores on clearance for $40. It has worked great for me.
http://www.ximeta.com/web/products/ndenclosure1_en.php
RadioShack link
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2407183&cp
Yeah, I saw that it only works on windows but I'm looking to see if anyone used it on a mac before. Which i don't see why it would work as it has an ip address.
Well buy that enclosure from radio shack and buy a 400GB hd from here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144423
You will pay less money and get 2x the HD space. GIDDY up!
The Mac should be able to see it but, as it is probably formatted NTFS, the Mac will not be able to write to it. As you want a mixed PC/Mac network, that leaves formatting it FAT32 (which will limit you to 32GB's) or making two partitions. I do not know if both partitions will be accessable from this device.
There are guides here on how to set up a mixed network. Good luck.
What do you mean by this? Are you saying fat32 only supports drives up to 32GB cause I have a 200GB drive I'm using right now that's fat32 with one partition so that would be wrong.
That is untrue. FAT32 can be fully used on any drive up to 2TB. It does limit the size of singular files though to 4GB.
I don't know but dude seriously consider the thing I mentioned to you. You'll get more for your $ and it has software that hooks it all up for you. Super easy!
Man do you work for Radio Shack or what
. I do like it but I don't like the style of it. As for the funds I'm just really looking around to see what is out there
When you start transferring over a network, the NTFS/FAT32/HFS+ problem disappears. The firmware/OS on the enclosure will handle the low-level I/O to the disk.
Man do you work for Radio Shack or what
HAHA no I don't. I guess I was just very impressed by it. Especially at the price. If you don't like the looks of it, well that can't be changed. But man think of the deal! Less money AND 2x the HD space! AWESUM!
I have pretty much the same network setup as you do and I use this thing:
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/article.asp?SCID=&CIID=66719
It works well enough, but it's much slower than USB 2.0 so copying lots of files is a pain. The bonus is if you are going to copy lots of gigs, take it off the network and plug it in via USB 2.0.
As for speeds, I found I could not play a Divx file over the network with out it skipping, but iTunes and iPhoto sharing work great.
I'll probably sell this one and get the new Airport Extreme from Apple when it comes out in Feb. You can plug any USB hard drive or printer into it and have it shared throughout the network.
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/article.asp?SCID=&CIID=66719
It works well enough, but it's much slower than USB 2.0 so copying lots of files is a pain. The bonus is if you are going to copy lots of gigs, take it off the network and plug it in via USB 2.0.
As for speeds, I found I could not play a Divx file over the network with out it skipping, but iTunes and iPhoto sharing work great.
I'll probably sell this one and get the new Airport Extreme from Apple when it comes out in Feb. You can plug any USB hard drive or printer into it and have it shared throughout the network.
Dont buy..
as someone mentioned earlier, it has some kind of windows-filesystem (dont remember which, but i think fat32).
on a mac, you have to mount it as a network drive BUT you always get problems with the filesystem. (see differences between the 2 filesystems, especially on "resource forks") also, some characters, which are allowed for hfs-files arent allowed to be used on fat32 (its frustrating trying to coying gigs of data and not exactly knowing at which file the process stops whithout any warning because of this "file-incompability)
last but not least cheap lan drives are slow as hell (you will be impressed!)
so for our office (heavy-mac-usage), it was a total waste of money.
be warned!
as someone mentioned earlier, it has some kind of windows-filesystem (dont remember which, but i think fat32).
on a mac, you have to mount it as a network drive BUT you always get problems with the filesystem. (see differences between the 2 filesystems, especially on "resource forks") also, some characters, which are allowed for hfs-files arent allowed to be used on fat32 (its frustrating trying to coying gigs of data and not exactly knowing at which file the process stops whithout any warning because of this "file-incompability)
last but not least cheap lan drives are slow as hell (you will be impressed!)
so for our office (heavy-mac-usage), it was a total waste of money.
be warned!