NAS / Logic / Mac compatibility for non-technical people

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I've got a NAS setup for music streaming & want to use it for my Logic music library as that now takes up most of the room on macbook air. As I've now discovered, Logic doesn't recognise non-mac formatted drives (I think)?

Is there a simple way of getting this to work, beyond formatting & reinstalling the drive on my NAS in a different way?

It might be the answer is: pay someone, and I'm ok with that. Because I don't really know what I'm doing, and I'm impressed that I even managed to setup the drive in the first instance to work with my computer & stereo. (Also, I can't remember my QNAP login, so unable to get into the setup of the server right  now)

Danny1969

OSX can read NTFS drives but not write to them. For drives that I need Windows and OSX to use I generally format them as exFAT. This can be read and written to by all OS's as far as I'm aware. 

There are a few tools that can enable OSX to write to NTFS drives, like Paragon, that may do the trick for you

wibble

Revolutions said:

I've got a NAS setup for music streaming & want to use it for my Logic music library as that now takes up most of the room on macbook air. As I've now discovered, Logic doesn't recognise non-mac formatted drives (I think)?

Is there a simple way of getting this to work, beyond formatting & reinstalling the drive on my NAS in a different way?

It might be the answer is: pay someone, and I'm ok with that. Because I don't really know what I'm doing, and I'm impressed that I even managed to setup the drive in the first instance to work with my computer & stereo. (Also, I can't remember my QNAP login, so unable to get into the setup of the server right  now)

Most if not all NAS drives support the 3 main network file protocols by default - SMB/CIFS (windows), AFS (Mac), NFS (Linux/unix).

You should be able to press command K in the Finder (connect to server) and mount the NAS as a drive on your Mac over the network, you'll need to know the local IP address of your NAS eg smb://192.168.1.1 and it'll probs ask for the user/password you have set up for any shares.

Do yout want a direct connection instead? seems to defeat the object of having a NAS

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Danny1969 said:

OSX can read NTFS drives but not write to them. For drives that I need Windows and OSX to use I generally format them as exFAT. This can be read and written to by all OS's as far as I'm aware. 

There are a few tools that can enable OSX to write to NTFS drives, like Paragon, that may do the trick for you

I’ll have a look at Paragon, thanks!

wibble said:

Most if not all NAS drives support the 3 main network file protocols by default - SMB/CIFS (windows), AFS (Mac), NFS (Linux/unix).

You should be able to press command K in the Finder (connect to server) and mount the NAS as a drive on your Mac over the network, you'll need to know the local IP address of your NAS eg smb://192.168.1.1 and it'll probs ask for the user/password you have set up for any shares.

Do yout want a direct connection instead? seems to defeat the object of having a NAS

Thanks for responding. I already have it connected to the mac. It’s just that Logic says it’s incompatible.

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I’ve come up with a simpler fix: just going to buy a LaCie drive to keep the audio libraries stored on. Server for music & streaming, hard drive for demos.

euan

Hows the Mac connected to the NAS? Because from what you’re saying there it’s just attached storage minus the network 

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euan said:

Hows the Mac connected to the NAS? Because from what you’re saying there it’s just attached storage minus the network 

It’s a volume. I can read & write on it. Works like a hard drive…

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Super late update, but I bought a 1GB LaCie drive & it worked perfectly. Cost me £100 but problem solved! Finally able to update the macOS on my laptop.