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