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You put an LSI RAID card in there
If you're getting one of those HP boxes, you might almost as well build a mini-ITX system
How is that essential? You never need to worry about the underlying file system on a network drive, that's the whole idea of networking. As long as the NAS supports the AFP protocol to full (or full enough) extent, it will work. Synology supports AFP with all the bells and whistles as far as I know, as do many other NASes.... and there's another issue no one has mentioned before:
As far as I know there is no NAS actually in the market that is able to run Mac journaled disk format. And this is essential for iPhoto or Aperture!
What I am looking for is a "real" OS X NAS including:
- 2 HD's in RAID 1 mode (24/7)
- Time Machine backup on a third disk
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Disk format is Mac OS journaled
- Mailserver on NAS to collect Mails from different providers (POP) and share them via IMAP throughout the network
- low energy (i.e. SSD for OS)
I am actually running a Buffalo NAS for all Data-Files and a Synology (mailserver only). But both are not very comfortable. The iPhoto-library must be stored on a separate time capsule and the mailserver is not as reliable as I would expect in the 21st century ...
So, if anybody has ever build such a NAS please post your parts list!
How is that essential? You never need to worry about the underlying file system on a network drive, that's the whole idea of networking. As long as the NAS supports the AFP protocol to full (or full enough) extent, it will work. Synology supports AFP with all the bells and whistles as far as I know, as do many other NASes.
If iPhoto still won't work, it pretty much means that you could never use iPhoto on a network drive. The file system does not matter.