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Welcome: Mac Mini

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 [...]
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Fileserver: NAS or not, that’s …

…the question. The amount of data I have around here isn’t the problem. I’ve plenty of space left. The thing which makes me worry is the reliability of my space. I’m currently running 2 LaCie Harddrives with a total of 1.5TB space on my iMac’s FW800 port. 500GB for my iMac’s TimeMachine, 1TB for the [...]
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