Mac Mini server files for users of 50 +.

Hello

Our current file server is the last of the Xserve running 10.6.8.  It's getting up there and if it's the toasted bread, so I am. If I get nervous.

I waited for a refreshment HW of Deputies and Minis, but none have been forthcoming and I don't see even in Active rumors about them. If Apple decided professional users can take a flying leap which will suck because I'm already doing a HyperV Windows 2012 nightmare and I want more. But I digress...

Anyone used later (also older than it is) makes Mac Mini with a Promise RAID as a file server for users of more than a dozen? We have a staff of 50 more or less, more use as a store of files for our portal and web server (each on a machine separate with mounted shares) of CrushFTP file sharing.  I would like to know popular experience actually using a Mini to serve that many users and if the aggregation of links to one of the thunderbolt with ethernet port ports actually works.

Anyone done this? How is the performance?

Thank you

Jeff

Not many users, but one of my clients is written four or five DTV full-HD video streams in couple of tables Promise Pegasus configured RAID-6, and the berries barely noticed the load.   This along with the generation previous Mac Mini.   The limit you will probably hit here, it's how much you can stuff through the Gigabit Ethernet, which probably means using a bolt of lightning for the Ethernet card or two - the bottleneck will be on the LAN side.  But I suspect that you will have to prototype your load in all cases.

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