After much of back and fourth and sleepless nights, I ordered a Mac Mini and a Lacie 4big Quadra RAID (4TB, 3TB/RAID5) this week. I’ve gone through countless options, even a low budget Hackintosh-setup with a PCI-Express RAID interface/Hotswap-cage and a FreeNAS setup. The thing which made me end up with a Mac Mini was the fact that I wouldn’t have saved *a lot* of money with a self-made setup, but it would have been definitely 10 times more work for the initial setup.
The temptation of an easy to setup (AND easy to maintain) solution was too big. I guess I’m getting old. 3-4 years ago, I would have chosen the solution which involves the largest DIY-factor. But nowadays, I just want an easy solution which doesn’t make much noise and I’m even willing to pay a little bit more for that. However, not as much as for a Netgear NAS… I have to admit that the Mac Mini setup is quite at the top of my budget, tho. If all I’d want are some TB of space in a corner of my flat, I’d certainly wouldn’t have chosen this: I came to the conclusion that I don’t want a single purpose (“dumb”) data-storage solution, but something which blends nicely into my current infrastructure and allows for custom expansion with services in the future on an environment I’m rather familiar with: OS X.
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hey oli
ich bin seit neustem stolzer besitzer eines macbook’s. gestern ging ich noch mit andry n bier saufen und er meinte, du könntest mir so ne kurze MUST HAVE SW für den leo geben…
was braucht man so, was nix kostet ;)?
cheers
Naja kommt drauf an was Du brauchst :P. Am besten schaust mal auf http://www.macupdate.com. Viele der kleinen Tools, die ich brauche, habe ich gekauft, die freien Alternativen haben mich zum Teil nicht so überzeugt.