MAC MINI SERVER HARDWARE RAID MAC OS X

The lack of any further Server development on MacOS is what would trouble me going with the mac mini for as a file server machine. But I guess you could mount a sharepoint and do that from one of your macs. You canвЂ™t really automate moving files on it with itвЂ™s own software though. You can have your data backed up the cloud different way too, like Google drive, Dropbox or an S3, backblaze is also supported. IвЂ™m backing it up from work to my home on a DS1813+ via Shared Folder Sync and itвЂ™s working good for that. Since it was long in the tooth, I made some research and went with a Synology 1813+ at the time, we changed it to a 1819+ just before Christmas and the speed increase is noticeable. I had a couple of issues with the system and no redundancy with a RAID 0 at the time.

MAC MINI SERVER HARDWARE RAID MAC OS X

We had a Power Mac (the cheese grater) for a long time as a server, with Mac OS X Server and we were 10-12 users connected to it. What RAM and processor would I need for this file sharing task?.Am I introducing a complexity in the MacMini (updating OS, Apps etc) that a Synology would hide?.Will the MacMini keep up in this file sharing role?.I also got excited about the idea of running Hazel to shuffle around files as part of our management of data.

Listening to the episode on MacMini as a server I got the idea that perhaps this would be a neat solution, especially if I hung a 6TB Thunderbold HD off of the MM, and set up a daily clone, and perhaps a Backblaze backup. I am wary of NAS drives and RAID as I have had many people in our industry wrestle with problems over the years, I myself have also buried four NAS drives during the lifespan of this magical Thecus of mine. While four of the staff are working from the NAS all day, we keep a regular archiving routine and the capacity rarely goes over 4TB. In the most part it has kept up, but it needs replacing.

We run a printing business with about 12 staff, and all of the production routes through the Thecus. I have a Thecus NAS N5200pro drive that has been in service for many many years, itвЂ™s been quite the workhorse.

Mac mini server hardware raid