Re: New Media Server....What about Mac based?!

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
>