Better conservation to use for the Mac Mini Server

Hi all

I have a Mac Mini, I want to start using a server around the House. Manage other Macs around the House, centralized Time Machine and are also used as a file server for both Windows I have machines.

Therefore, a Mac Mini with 500 GB of storage, so I obviously need to add much more. Ideally, I'd like to build a 5 4 Bay RAID system but it is there, I seem to be failing and need help. I seem to have 3 options - stroke of lightning, USB, or NAS.

Love at first sight seems to be too much and a lot of people say he exaggerated in any case for a home installation

NAS seems to be the most cost-effective way, but then negates the point of the Mac server still?

USB looks good, but I can't find any decent USB enclosures, are there who would recommend?

Thanks in advance

Mike

Unfortunately, many would say that Macs are not appropriate to use as real servers for businesses, however some do and for small businesses, they are perfectly usable. Obviously in a situation of host concern the most appropriate a Mac as a server is completely different.

While the most common choice for the storage of a Mac server these days would be an external RAID Thunderbolt for example the promised Pegasus R4 and R6 lines, I agree for a location that a NAS solution may be more appropriate.

A NAS can act as a universal file for Mac and Windows PC server, should not let the Mac on all the time, and most NAS devices support also act as a Time Machine backup server. However, some people say that based NAS servers Time Machine are not reliable enough and you may use a real solution of Apple as a Capsule or a Mac running Server.app and sharing a drive as a destination of Time Machine.

I agree somewhat that NAS based Time Machine systems will not be as reliable as a real Apple one, but I'd also probably say that they are not either completely useless. For example, I use a NetGear ReadyNAS as a system of Time Machine and I'm pretty happy with it.

In addition, for external storage, there are additional options.

  • USB, as you said
  • FireWire is always possible even if you suddenly need lightning to FireWire adapter, you can even get a FireWire RAID solution
  • Love at first sight as the promised Pegasus system I mentioned
  • NAS - you can connect to it via NFS and "re - share" via AFP via the Mac server
  • iSCSI Ethernet to a NAS system, could be directly at a customer or could be're-shared' via AFP
  • Fiber Channel to aid suddenly in love with FDDI card and then have a configuration Fibre Channel SAN - very expensive and often used by video editors
  • Maybe a bolt of lightning to eSATA adapter, then an eSATA storage solution

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