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Hi Mac friends. I'd like to temporarily make an unused networked 2TB drive from someone else's PC (I have permission) as the Time Machine backup (I'm just backing up 1TB maximum but they say it' best to have double for allowance) while budget is allocated for softwares like SuperDuper! or...

I continue to be bugged by the TimeMachine backup failure "Some of the files on your Mac cannot be backed up until Cloud Files syncing has completed." I have two machines that are identically configured. Both back-up to a Synology NAS. One works fine and the other consistently gives this error...

I would like to use my 10gb ethernet in my Mac Mini to get higher transfer speeds from/to my NAS, is it possible? My setup: Mac Mini M2 Pro with 10gb ethernet (Ventura 13.3.1) Synology Diskstation 916+ with 2x1gb ethernet and DSM 7.2 beta Netgear GS110EMX switch with 8x1gb and 2x10gb ethernet...

Is there any way that I can share files and folders with my family by turning my Mac mini into some kind of server letting everyone in the family connect from their devices remotely? I would like to avoid paying monthly for an app that does this if possible – I've searched online and wasn't...

Hi, I hope someone can help with this Music challenge. I lost my Apple Music library but I have an iTunes library backup from late 2019. This was when my music files (about 75,000 music tracks) were stored on an external drive. The files are now on my Synology NAS. The library is on my iMac...

I would like to move the data from these 2 apps to a NAS, which presents it to the LAN as a SMB share. To regularly and conveniently use these apps from my (only) MacBook Air laptop without having to be physically tethered to a USB device... Photos - to be able to simplify the syncing of photos...

Which NAS 1TB hard drive is the most reliable and more durable for non-NAS use for simple home backups (but w/ important files) like Apple's Time Machine? Or it's more durable and reliable to buy a 1TB SSD for backup (which brand and model is the most reliable, most durable but affordable- a...

I have a Network Attached Storage drive and I've dragged a couple folders from it over to my Favorites section in Finder but they never stay there. They'll stay until I either put the laptop to sleep or power down. How do I get these folders to 'stick' in the favorites area?

Hello everyone. A little backstory. I was a hackintosh user for over a decade, with my latest machine being an i7 6700k running Catalina. The machine was/is absolutely bombproof, super stable, quiet, and always worked with everything I threw at it. Never felt any bottlenecks with even the most...

i have a synology NAS, and i have several folders that i have mounted on my desktop as AFP, and if i click on one of the mounted fodlers and in the finder window do a search for a file it can't find anything. https://share.cleanshot.com/9bACSn i made sure to have any indexing done on my NAS...

What's the best way of upgrading the disks in a NAS that's using RAID 1? I've a Terramaster NAS with 2x 2GB hard disks in RAID 1, making for 2GB available storage. The disks are around five years old, so I'm concerned one or either might fail. I'd like to upgrade the whole setup to 4GB (so...

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Hi. I just bought a WD Red Plus 6TB NAS drive. My intention is to use it as a normal storage disk with my MacBook Pro using an adapter to USB. I chose a NAS drive as they are supposed to have a superior build to "normal" drives. They for example include sensors to sense shaking in order to...

On my Synology NAS I create some big disk images (with Apple file systems on them). The end result should be read-only, so I have tried sparse bundles with read-only permissions and read-only DMGs. Both work fine once created, but the creation of the DMGs fails quite often. So this makes...

Setting up an office/music studio with a couple of 1st Generation Mac Pros, a 2018 256GB MacBook Air, and a 2019 256GB MacBook Pro. Want to put the laptops in cool looking stands and run them in clamshell mode if possible. Not sure due to the fans. Will likely be picking up a Mac Studio in the...

I have AppleTV HD from 2017 (model A842) I wanted to make a simple-ish media server hosted on my Synology NAS. I made a shared folder on it and put the movies there, in 26 subdirectories, one for each letter of the alphabet. There is no standard for alphabetization I could find. I ignored all...

It seems the issue was the NAS itself. It did not have enough power for an external drive that size. With a different NAS, I have not seen this problem so far. ________ Up until recently, it was all working fine - copying files from my Mac M1 to my mini-NAS via Samba. I can still access all...

I recently swapped my drives and SSD into a brand new QNAP (TVS-872XT). The previous QNAP failed and would not power up. After transferring the SSDs I installed the firmware (4.5.4.1892), rebooted, and then installed all eight drives. Every program works with the exception of Final Cut Pro. If I...

If you are using a QNAP via TB3 and plan to update to Firmware Version 5.0.0.1828, please be aware there is a bug. QNAP is aware of it. Unfortunately, the tech support person I spoke to, prior to updrading to V5.0 did not inform me of the bug. When I called back, a different support person told...

Hello! What are the benefits and differences between using a NAS vs. a Mac server? I was recently listening to Todd Olthoff and the MPU podcast where they talk about NAS and a Mac server, and much of what they described was similar. What the benefits of each, which one did you opt for and why?