So at the small office I work at we've got a couple of Macs and a Windows 8.1 desktop that nobody really uses. So (of course) I decided to turn that into a central file server!
Problem is that Windows seems to play nicely with the Macs most of the time (so far), but it requires that the PC not be allowed to sleep when anyone wants to access the files, which both sucks energy and is loud (and right next to my desk). It's also a bit limited.
So I'm wondering what would be a fairly good, off the shelf, not too expensive solution? It's been a while since I did any real research into NAS.
Here's the basic requirements:
- Play nice with Windows and Mac OS
- Don't give me crap when four people are trying to work on files remotely instead of copying them locally.
- Don't die all the damn time like my old PogoPlug.
And the would be nice to haves:
- RAID redundancy
- Remote (web-based?) file access
- Cloud backup
TIA!
Problem is that Windows seems to play nicely with the Macs most of the time (so far), but it requires that the PC not be allowed to sleep when anyone wants to access the files, which both sucks energy and is loud (and right next to my desk). It's also a bit limited.
So I'm wondering what would be a fairly good, off the shelf, not too expensive solution? It's been a while since I did any real research into NAS.
Here's the basic requirements:
- Play nice with Windows and Mac OS
- Don't give me crap when four people are trying to work on files remotely instead of copying them locally.
- Don't die all the damn time like my old PogoPlug.
And the would be nice to haves:
- RAID redundancy
- Remote (web-based?) file access
- Cloud backup
TIA!