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Re: New Media Server....What about Mac based?!
- Subject: Re: New Media Server....What about Mac based?!
- From: "noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:26:50 -0000
Thanks Phil, any links to the external drive holders you are using!?
Cheers
Noel
--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@a...> wrote:
>
>
> > Is there any way I could go about using a Mac as a media server
i.e.
> > some kind of external drive holder that could connect to the Mac?
Im
> > looking for capacity for 8 drives, if I go pc based it will be
with
> > one of the rocketraid cards but i'd love to be able to abandon
the pc
> > idea and do it with say a mac mini and some kind of sata drive
holder!!
>
>
> At the moment I'm using a Mac Mini (borrowed) as my main fileserver
for
> media and documents. I have 3 x 8 bay firewire to IDE enclosures
currently
> holding about 3Tb of drives (almost full).
>
> Firewire on a Mac works - under Windows and Linux it works most of
the time
> (which basically means it can't be relied on and so "doesn't
work")
>
> Phil
>
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