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Hello, I currently have an IBM thinkpad laptop. I bought a Mac laptop. I would like to purchase an external hard drive that is compatible with both Windows and Mac, so that I can offload 2 decades of documents and photos from the IBM laptop. I see many options on Amazon but may state (Mac compatible, needs to be reformatted). I am totally not a techie person. Will someone please recommend something that I can buy from Amazon that does not require me to reformat anything? I wanna be able to plug it into the IBM laptop, download, and plug it into the Mac and upload... without losing data. Is this possible? Otherwise, is it hard to reformat the drive? How does that work? Do I download stuff onto the hard drive from the IBM laptop first, then reformat the hard drive (while the documents and photos are on there), and then am able to upload it onto the Mac? Does reformatting the hard drive keep the stuff on the hard drive? My photos and docs will not disappear? Thank you!
Hi John! Wow! This is helpful... but not sure if it will work...? My IBM keeps giving me the zero disk space message and I'm not sure what else I can do, as I've deleted non-essential programs, etc. It also has Windows 7 Professional. =( Really old. So, I dunno if I even have space to install the migration assistant. Can I just copy/paste or just move files over from the IBM to the hard drive?
Thank you! I think for my limited technical knowledge... it seems like purchasing a OWC hard drive is best option. As that seems like I can use the hard drive without having to worry about reformatting it and losing my data...
I was using a drobo with a MacMini and NFS for infuse. Sadly the drobo is no more and I am about to set up a synology NAS, probably vis smb. I have heard good reports and the previous replies give me confidence m
Another great benefit of a multi-bay NAS devices is the ability to stripe your content across all the disks in the array, so that if one of them ever fails, all your content remains accessible and you only need to replace the failed drive with a new one to regain the disk-failure tolerance necessary to protect against possibly losing another drive. Critical data can be set up with multi-disc fault tolerance, but drives fail so infrequently I doubt it would be worth it in almost all normal use cases.
Another recommendation is to start with bigger drives than you need. I thought 6TB for a total of 24 in a 4 bay NAS would be enough for me but as time goes on and I get more movies that space filled up and I had to get a new system.
I also have same problem. Atm, im using 4 x 8TB Samsung qvo 870 ssd connected on sabrent powered usb hub with airport extreme. I have a question. Whats your test transfer speed between apple tv/mac in and can i use file system apfs in NAS synology ?
So, like most Linux users, I've gotten the message about needing to upgrade to an ext4 drive. I had an extra drive in my machine with nothing on it so I formatted it to ext4. I rebooted then went into my prefs to change location and it tells me:
If you have formatted your drive to be ext4 you shouldn't be getting this message. Note that if you received a notification and you are running ext4, it may be because you are also running ecryptfs. Ecrypfts is not supported.
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I also checked and removed an old install from 2 years ago thinking it could have been that machine (not likely in my mind since the app wouldn't let me select the drive in my current machine but who knows) and still have the same issue.
I'm using Debian Sid and there is no Libappindicator 1.0. As it is currently working with version 0.49, I don't think that's the issue. I think the issue is your software is saying it needs to have the folder on an ext4 drive but the software is almost 3 years old and has a bug in it since it can't see 2 different ext4 drives.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Dropbox checks the location of the binary (/usr/bin/dropbox). I run a recent Ubuntu version with nautilus-dropbox installed. The root partition is ext3, the separate /home partition is ext4 so it should be good, yet Dropbox complains. I hope somebody can confirm this.
I am looking for new hard rives for my RN102. I thought the max is 2 3 TB drives, but the compatablity list on the support page now shows up to 12 TB drives are compatable. Is this so? I don't want to get the wrong drives.
Many larger drives no longer have the side-center mount hole. If you purchase a drive without them, then you will need to remove the plastic mounting brackets in the tray, and attach the drives using the screws that were shipped with your ReadyNAS. Some of the bottom holes won't align with the tray either - but two screws are enough to hold the drive securely in the tray.
I installed two Constellation ES.2 ST33000650NS 3 TB drives. Now I'm having difficulty configuring. It doesn't "expand" storage. It says RAID 1 @ 3TB storage. When I first setup years ago, I could setuo to show two separate drives and then I cloned the data for redundency. Even switching between X-RAID and Flex RAID, it no longer allows me to do it. I understand RAID 1 is supposed to provide redundency, but if I simulate the loss of one drive by removing, I am unable to access the data on the other drive. When I put the other drive back in, it starts to resynch and all data is lost.
Yes, it will work, regardless of any file system size limitations within the client machine's operating system. Those limits only apply to disks which are controlled directly by the client machine itself.
A NAS drive, on the other hand, is essentially a mini-server which exists to make its disk(s) available over the network. As such, it has its own operating system which controls those disks and, presumably, is able to handle their capacity, since that's its primary purpose in life.
This is no different from 15 years ago when I was using samba to export ext2fs filesystems from Linux boxes to be mounted on Windows clients that didn't support ext2fs - the client is just talking to a network share and has no knowledge of the underlying filesystem or hardware, only the server's limitations matter at that level.
According to this Wikipedia article, it can handle 8 TB when you use 32KB clusters. So you'll have to select this option when you format it. So it looks like the answer is yes, Win XP SP3 will support a 5TB NAS.
My machine at work is Windows XP, and it's connected to a 9 TB network share, from a Mac server. It works, but it's a little buggy...sometimes the system will hang when I right click the network volume...so at first, in order to Map the Network Drive I had to do so using the command line...although at the moment, it doesn't seem to be having that problem.
I may be wrong on this one but to sort of piggy back on what fa2lerror said Seagate should be a good way to go, I know they have an Enterprise Performance 10K HDD 2.5" with varying capacities from 300gb to 1.8tb that I would THINK would be compatible but I would want to ask one of our techs to be sure. Anyone have first hand experience with this drive?
The current drives are Enterprise Hot-Plug 300GB 10K rpm, 2.5" SFF Dual-Port 6G SAS hard drive with the model number EG0300FBLSE, and spare part number 507284-001. They are connected with a HP SMart Array P410i and the rated transfer speed is 6 Gbps.
I would like to reiterate that hp, dell and other system assemblers do not solder and fabricate their parts. It does not matter if its a motherboard, memory chip, CPU or hard drive . They purchase on a large scale directly from Seagate, Asus and other mainstream manufacturers, in fact they are the same upgrade parts you can find online.
really the only difference is we purchase 1 to 2 items maybe 10. They buy millions which allows them to have their own labels with their unique part #s masking the true identity of the supplier. Its still the same chips, circuits, motors, etc.
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