Comments on: Other World Computing NASPerform Network Storage – Review http://www.mymac.com/2007/10/other-world-computing-nasperform-network-storage-review/ Publishing since 1995 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:56:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Colin Pye http://www.mymac.com/2007/10/other-world-computing-nasperform-network-storage-review/comment-page-1/#comment-31915 Colin Pye Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:29:59 +0000 #comment-31915 If you want to have write access on multiple Macs, you should be able to do it by sharing the drive from the one Mac that does have write access to the drive. Then, from the other Macs, don't connect to the drive directly, connect to the Mac that is sharing the drive, and mount it from there. It may run a little slower that way, and you will have to keep the full-access Mac on when you want to use it that way, but it should work without problems. If you don't need write access, you can get things faster by connecting directly to the drive. On the other hand, you won't need to install NDAS driver software on machines that aren't directly accessing the drive. If you really want to get bizarre about it, you can use a NAS device like the PogoPlug, connect it directly to the drive with USB, and get full read/write access from all of your machines, but this reduces the NASPerform to acting as a plain old USB disk enclosure, not an economical use of it's capabilities. If you want to have write access on multiple Macs, you should be able to do it by sharing the drive from the one Mac that does have write access to the drive. Then, from the other Macs, don’t connect to the drive directly, connect to the Mac that is sharing the drive, and mount it from there.

It may run a little slower that way, and you will have to keep the full-access Mac on when you want to use it that way, but it should work without problems. If you don’t need write access, you can get things faster by connecting directly to the drive. On the other hand, you won’t need to install NDAS driver software on machines that aren’t directly accessing the drive.

If you really want to get bizarre about it, you can use a NAS device like the PogoPlug, connect it directly to the drive with USB, and get full read/write access from all of your machines, but this reduces the NASPerform to acting as a plain old USB disk enclosure, not an economical use of it’s capabilities.

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