On Sep 5, 2012, at 2:59 AM, Didier Carlier wrote:
> 
> The use case described is handled perfectly by OSX server ($15 these days...).
> It might still be a good idea but don't believe that Mac users are waiting 
> for such a NAS without any alternatives…
My iTunes library is pushing 2TB these days, and I'm not done backing up my 
large DVD collection yet. I've got a stack of external firewire drives attached 
to my Mac Mini that are slow (nature of Firewire) and suffer early thermal 
failure because these cases are designed more for looking slim and attractive 
on my desk than they are for actively cooling the disks within.  If I want to 
add new disks to expand my volume, I can't really do that; I have to make a 
full backup, destroy my original volume, and create a new volume with more 
disks in it.

I'm a beta tester for what was TensComplement so I have ZFS on there now, but I 
still have the limitations of firewire and the consumer level external disk 
thermal problems.

I very much have an interest in moving my precious media library to something 
more robust and performant. 

OS X Server doesn't fix any of that.

Meanwhile I've got a ~5 year old AMD machine that used to be a nice Linux 
desktop, now running Illumos (as of about 8 hours or so ago) and the long slow 
rsync from my Mac is still going. My disks will be actively cooled by a case 
with adequate fans. When my 2TB ZFS volume is a little closer to full, I can 
add another mirrored pair of 2TB disks to my pool in a matter of maybe half an 
hour tops (including time to physically install the disks). I've also got a 
pair of SSD's for slog and cache devices to put in there, once I source another 
SATA controller for the system. I can't do any of that with my Mac Mini.

I'm also looking at the *five disks* on my desk right now around my monitor, 
and smiling knowing that they are going away soon.

-M


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