Bob Zelin
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Dear David –
you want this to be easy. You just want to plug in your G-Tech Shuttle XL, and have it be a shared storage system for 3 computers. That’s not going to happen, because Apple screwed up High Sierra Server. I have been building macOS (OS X) Servers since 2008, and since the release in December, this no longer works (of course, you can get a copy of macOS Sierra 10.12.6, Server and it will work fine.And of course, Spotlight search will work fine. Spotlight search does not work fine over other networks (I think Lumaforge has Spotlight working). You can certainly index a network volume with terminal commands, but when you add media to the shared volume, you will have to index again. On a Mac volume, spotlight just works (over AFP) but like I said, Apple ruined macOS Server in this latest release.
As for your Netgear ReadyNAS, the setup procedure is the same for any NAS or shared storage product, and you are probably not following the rules. You should have 8 drives minimum stripped together in a RAID group. You should have a 10G port on the NAS (and Netgear absolutely sells NAS systems with dual 10G ports). This should go to a 10G switch, and all the client computers should be plugged into this 10G switch on an isolated network with static IP addresses. You can use countless programs like Chronosync, Good Sync, Carbon Copy cloner, etc. to backup, in addition to the free backup software that is supplied by every NAS manufacturer like Netgear, Synology and QNAP. “why can’t I just use the stuff Apple gives me” – stop being a baby. Go complain to Apple. And while you are complaining to them, find out why they killed the macOS Server product after all this time.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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1) you can contact me.
2) you create 2 networks on 2 different subnets.
For example –
your internet network is on 10.10.0.xxx. So your computers are all 10.10.0.2, 10.10.0.3, etc. And even your QNAP on Ethernet port 1 can be 10.10.0.36 (or whatever the DHCP router assigns your devices – it’s all automatic).now, your QNAP 10G port is 192.168.2.3, and your client computer is 192.168.2.4 (and 192.168.2.5, 192.168.2.6, etc.).
You click on GO> Connect To Server> smb://192.168.2.3 (this is the QNAP) and it connects to the QNAP. when you run applications, it will never go to the 10.10.0.36 (or whatever) on the 1G network – it will ALWAYS use the 10G network, because you clicked on GO> Connect To Server to connect your storage. That’s it. Run an AJA / Blackmagic speed test – you will see that it works fast.
bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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45 Drives called me and said that they would train me this week. Let’s see what happens.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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AND if you want to enable Jumbo Frames (MTU 9000) to maximize your 10G network speed, this will make things very incompatible with your Internet Service Provider who wants the MTU to be 1500 (the default). Keep 2 networks. Problem solved.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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I have just got finished bitching on the “FCP X Debates” forum about something related to this. Just because you buy an Apple product, does not mean that you don’t need to buy MORE STUFF. Just because Apple is giving you a “free” 10G port, does not mean that you don’t need to buy more stuff.
It is very common, (and almost everyone does this), that in addition to buying your iMac or iMac Pro, you purchase an additional thunderbolt 3 dock (from Promise, Sonnet, Cal Digit, Other World Computing) so that you have MORE PORTS that you need. And if you don’t want to spend the $250 to do so, you can spend $29 and get a thunderbolt to 1G Ethernet adaptor from Apple (made by Belkin) to give you a second 1G network port (the 1G network port is built into all the docks on the market).Now, you hook up your shared storage system (QNAP, Synology, LumaForge, etc.) to your Netgear 10G switch (or directly to your NAS), and you use your existing HOUSE internet network to connect to this nice new port (on the dock, or the Belkin thunderbolt 3 to Ethernet adaptor) to get wired internet access to your computer. AND if you want remote internet access to your QNAP (or Synology or Netgear ReadyNAS), you plug your HOUSE INTERNET NETWORK into Ethernet port 1 of the QNAP, etc. and VOILA! You now have wired internet access to the QNAP. You have everything !
So you may now say “oh, you mean I need 2 cables going to each computer?”. YES – this is the video business, this is the technology business, we have LOTS of wires going everywhere. We have wires, cables, adaptors, connectors, etc, etc. And we always have, and we always will. Nothing professional is “self contained”. Everything has tons of “stuff” on it to get it to work. I don’t care if you are a fisherman, an auto mechanic, a house painter, a musician, or in the video business. You need LOTS of stuff to make a living, and you WILL run multiple cables to your computer, and not share your shared storage video network with your internet connection (unless you want the aggravation you are going thru). And as for that little 4 port switch – QNAP will have the QSW-1208-8C which is an 8 port switch for under $589 in a couple of days now at the mail order companies. Buy that instead.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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Louis Rossmann is possibly the best Apple tech in the United States. He has all the facilities to repair Apple products at component level – to the dismay of Apple. And he has had numerous threats of lawsuits against him, for displaying Apple confidential schematics on his YouTube presentations.
The bottom line here is – if you have a Mac that is dead, and Apple won’t fix it – Louis Rossmann CAN and WILL fix it, no matter what Apple says can, or can’t be fixed. Rossmann makes his living primarily fixing Apple products. He can certainly express his opinions.
With the recent fiasco of macOS High Sierra nonsense with third party drivers that I have faced, I am becoming more aggressive in my attitudes towards Apple products. While the iMac Pro is a fine product, I don’t (and can’t) make my living with a bare bones Mac and FCP X software. If I can’t interface OTHER PRODUCTS to an Apple computer – be it GPU’s, I/O Boxes, thunderbolt adaptors, 10G and 40G adaptors, external storage, external shared storage, etc. then I CANT MAKE A LIVING. And if Apple makes it more and more difficult to tie in THIRD PARTY products to Apple computers, then yes, I am going to be very vocal about this, and continue to complain. I have been involved with Apple computers since the beginning days of AVID. I am not a PC person, and I am not a newbie to Apple products. I don’t like the increase of Apple’s isolationism from other third party companies, that only want to use their products, so they can help their clients (and help sell Apple computers).
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com -
this is the best (and one of the only) reviews of Storinator I have ever seen, with any sort of “real world” detail.
Thank you Doug !
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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https://yoyotta.com/support.html
a whole series of training videos right on their website.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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Hi Jason –
with a 10G adaptor, I create a static volume – not a thick volume, and I do either RAID 5 for single drive protection, or RAID 6 for dual drive failure protection. It’s up to the customer how much they want to lose in the setup (and possible failure).375 MB/sec is very low. Did you disable SMB signing ? A Promise SanLink2 will do about 800 MB/sec Write/Read and a Promise SanLink3 will do about 350 MB/sec WRITE and 1000 MB/sec READ on the TVS-1282T.
RAID 5 will work fine for you, if you are ok with only having protection for one drive to fail.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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