Storage Server for Window and Mac

[Guest]

Hey Guys.

 

I do alot of Video Editing with Adobe Premiere. When I receive my motherboard in a few days I will finally join the PC world!

I currently use the new Macbook Pro 15inch 2018 all spec out!

I shoot 4k and need to keep all of my footage.

For storage I use the Pegasus R6, 3Tb x 6 in Raid 5. (Speed on Raid 5 is perfect for me)

 

Now my issue is that I will most likely be using my new Build Running Windows. I will have to keep the Mac as I travel and do work on the road.

What I wanna know is how can I share my files beetween my Mac and Windows efficiently and fast?

Am I still gonna be able to use my Pegasus R6 (2 x Thunderbolt 2 Input/Output)? Do I have to build a Storage Server? Do I buy a Thunderbolt 3 (buy a Apple Dongle to convert to Thunderbolt 2) or Thunderbolt 2 Expansion Card? But if I do how will it work as Mac has different file system (HFS+) & windows has different file system (NTFS)?

 

Let me know!

Thanks Alot!

[corrado33]

Windows cannot natively read HFS+ drives. However there are programs that let you mount HFS+ drives like "Macdrive" or "Paragon HFS+ for Windows". 

 

I'm sure you could buy a thunderbolt PCIe card for the PC. EDIT2: This is wrong. Unless your motherboard specifically supports a thunderbolt add-in card, it won't work.

 

If you didn't have such a nice little RAID box there, I'd suggest reformatting the drives as exFat and sticking them in your windows machine and use that as a fileserver. 

 

If you edit to/from a networked drive, the speed will be limited by your network card, which is likely a 1 gigabit card, which is ~125 megabytes per second.

 

Your scratch drive should still be local (and as fast as you can make it.)

 

How are you editing videos? Final cut? Adobe Premier?

 

Doesn't your raid box have multiple thunderbolt ports in the back? I'm unsure if it'll work if you just hook both up? One to the mac and one to the PC?

 

EDIT: If you don't like macdrive or the Paragon program solution, you could just format the drives as exFAT, which can be read and written by both windows and mac. Mac doesn't like NTFS (without additional software). Windows doesn't like HFS+ (without additional software), both are fine with exfat. 

[AbsoluteFool]

5 minutes ago, Tscanivel said:

Hey Guys.

 

I do alot of Video Editing with Adobe Premiere. When I receive my motherboard in a few days I will finally join the PC world!

I currently use the new Macbook Pro 15inch 2018 all spec out!

I shoot 4k and need to keep all of my footage.

For storage I use the Pegasus R6, 3Tb x 6 in Raid 5. (Speed on Raid 5 is perfect for me)

 

Now my issue is that I will most likely be using my new Build Running Windows. I will have to keep the Mac as I travel and do work on the road.

What I wanna know is how can I share my files beetween my Mac and Windows efficiently and fast?

Am I still gonna be able to use my Pegasus R6 (2 x Thunderbolt 2 Input/Output)? Do I have to build a Storage Server? Do I buy a Thunderbolt 3 (buy a Apple Dongle to convert to Thunderbolt 2) or Thunderbolt 2 Expansion Card? But if I do how will it work as Mac has different file system (HFS+) & windows has different file system (NTFS)?

 

Let me know!

Thanks Alot!

There are NASes that can take files from all types of systems. However if you want it all on one server i'm not the right person to ask about this, unless theres some share thing that will allow you to do this.

 

However, i'm quite sure most people will recomend against RAID5. Probably will be fine if the data isn't super important. If so you'll also want to think about backup aswell.

[Guest]

 

7 minutes ago, corrado33 said:

Windows cannot natively read HFS+ drives. However there are programs that let you mount HFS+ drives like "Macdrive" or "Paragon HFS+ for Windows". 

 

I'm sure you could buy a thunderbolt PCIe card for the PC.

 

If you didn't have such a nice little RAID box there, I'd suggest reformatting the drives as exFat and sticking them in your windows machine and use that as a fileserver. 

 

If you edit to/from a networked drive, the speed will be limited by your network card, which is likely a 1 gigabit card, which is ~125 megabytes per second.

 

Your scratch drive should still be local (and as fast as you can make it.)

 

How are you editing videos? Final cut? Adobe Premier?

 

Doesn't your raid box have multiple thunderbolt ports in the back? I'm unsure if it'll work if you just hook both up? One to the mac and one to the PC?

 

The Raid Box I have only has 2 Thunderbolt 2 Ports.

 

What I am willing to do is Reformatting my drives to exFat as you said. But Not in my case as it does not have the space.

I can buy a Raid Enclosure, if I do I would like to have more for I can simply expand it later on. Any suggestions?

 

Next If I do get a Raid Enclosure and reformat the Drives, What would I need so I can grab the footage with my Mac?

And my Motherboard is the ASUS ROG XI Maximus Formula. Do I need a network card?

[corrado33]

5 minutes ago, Tscanivel said:

 

 

The Raid Box I have only has 2 Thunderbolt 2 Ports.

 

What I am willing to do is Reformatting my drives to exFat as you said. But Not in my case as it does not have the space.

I can buy a Raid Enclosure, if I do I would like to have more for I can simply expand it later on. Any suggestions?

 

Next If I do get a Raid Enclosure and reformat the Drives, What would I need so I can grab the footage with my Mac?

And my Motherboard is the ASUS ROG XI Maximus Formula. Do I need a network card?

Wait I thought you already had a raid enclosure? Isn't that what the pegasus thing is? You don't HAVE to reformat the drives if you are willing to install some software on the PC. 

 

I quickly googled your motherboard and it DOES seem to support thunderbolt. That'd be a question for Asus though as I'm unsure how it'd work for that particular board.  (I think? I can't find your exact board.)

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, corrado33 said:

Wait I thought you already had a raid enclosure? Isn't that what the pegasus thing is? You don't HAVE to reformat the drives if you are willing to install some software on the PC. 

 

I quickly googled your motherboard and it DOES seem to support thunderbolt. That'd be a question for Asus though as I'm unsure how it'd work for that particular board. 

Perfect! I miss read your awnser! I will be getting MacDrive!