System requirements: 1 iMac OS X 10.07.5, relaunched, 1 professional Gigabit Switch, a Seagate Buisness storrage 6TB. and good Cat 6 Pachkabel. Nothing else is in this network Gigabit.
Additional help: Ca. 4-5 hours phone calls with the Seagate hotline and a really competent partner. Despite everything, no complete solution was for me to get, because the NAS system is "still" too error-prone for working together with OS X.
Time Machine, TM has (Apple) no volume restrictions, it deletes only its "old" backup if there is no space on the disk has (so at Apple), therefore the NAS is with me after about 2 years of full and for data is then no more space available. Remedy, create a separate partition TM. Here it comes .... Remove both HDD and a USB connection to a using DiskPart to delete "Windows System", for example, the plates so that it is "factory" deleted. Then set about 13 hours the partition for TM and the rest for data. OK the tip of Seagate worked great. 2 partitions 1x and 1x TM data. But it goes even further.
Speed: In order to not confuse them with any data-transfer rates, I have set the transfer speeds in%.
Internal HD = 100%
SD card = 13%,
Two USB 2.0 external hard drives with Raid 1 = 49%
Seagate NAS with only 56% capacity.
That is far too little, here USB 3.0 hard drives would make a lot more. I can not blame only on the Seagate NAS the speed problem, there may of course be due to Apple. I could not verify.
Stability of OS X with the Seagate NAS: This, this is the NAS so slow, you have to wait a lot of the Mac and the Finder has then appeared, which he depends, but this is not the case, it just takes everything very long , This is unacceptable.
Wake On LAN, here the NAS with the Mac refuses (many OS X WoL programs tested) persistently to work together.
General problems of Seagete Business Storage regardless of operating system:
1. From time to time can not be disabled on the NAS on / off switch.
2. After calling the NAS upon any "Internet Explorer", the menu needs to be changed to the language over and over again until she always starts in English.
3. "HDD off" The power saving mode does not work.
4. Nowhere Seagate is the power consumption of the NAS, I have the following measured, the NAS is required at full load about 22-25 W, the power saving mode was unmeasurable because as already he described not turn on.
5. Global Access, here I did not get with the help of support, the Global Access to run.
6.Es missing messages on the screen, which makes the NAS at the moment just. If eg after a power failure, on / off switch does not work, then pull the plug out of 230, the NAS again the Raid builds (which is normal is) everything is really slow in the context of the NAS. Since there are no messages, you do not know why everything is so slow and especially how long the raid structure might take. For the Mac: it should when USB Raid, can not operate, you get at least one message that the raid rebuilds itself.
Summary:
Seagate has here at its NAS operating system Samba, still a lot of rework. For operation of the NAS on a MAC I can not guess at the moment. For my data security is too important to experiment with this NAS system around.
The "old" Seagate Black Amoor NAS systems ran and still run extremely great and very reliable for many Windows users.
I hope that this will sometimes be the case with the Busines systems, but how it looks with the Appel connection, which is in the stars.
