Hi
New to the forums, and also to my Mac, but really loving it. Firstly apologies for asking a question that I know has been asked many times, but I just can't figure out a consistent answer.
I have a number of PCs at home running Vista or XP. I also have a Windows SBS Server with some RAID storage. However, I have now bought this amazing MacBook Air, which I have loaded up with about 5,000 photos and several docs.
My objective is to buy a lot more RAID storage (1 Tb?): maybe a new external drive or NAS. I would like to
- have my PCs and my Mac to be able to read/write to the new storage.
- move my Mac iPhoto storage to this external drive and be able to share that with the PCs.
- move most of the MSOffice documents off the SBS server onto the new storage so both PCs and Max can read/write them
- possibly store large video files on the new storage
- have Time Machine do regular backups to the drive
- not have too much latency across my gigabit ethernet
Could someone help with the easiest way to do this and what specific kit is recommended....
Many thanks
Tim
MacBook Air
New to the forums, and also to my Mac, but really loving it. Firstly apologies for asking a question that I know has been asked many times, but I just can't figure out a consistent answer.
I have a number of PCs at home running Vista or XP. I also have a Windows SBS Server with some RAID storage. However, I have now bought this amazing MacBook Air, which I have loaded up with about 5,000 photos and several docs.
My objective is to buy a lot more RAID storage (1 Tb?): maybe a new external drive or NAS. I would like to
- have my PCs and my Mac to be able to read/write to the new storage.
- move my Mac iPhoto storage to this external drive and be able to share that with the PCs.
- move most of the MSOffice documents off the SBS server onto the new storage so both PCs and Max can read/write them
- possibly store large video files on the new storage
- have Time Machine do regular backups to the drive
- not have too much latency across my gigabit ethernet
Could someone help with the easiest way to do this and what specific kit is recommended....
Many thanks
Tim
MacBook Air
