No need for a 2.6 GHz quad core server, a 2.3 GHz quad core Mac mini, even the dual core i5 Mac mini, will more than suffice.
But also know, that the Mac mini only takes notebook drives, which are 2.5", and there currently are no 3 TB HDDs in that form factor. The 3 TB HDDs you looked at are 3.5" desktop HDDs and will not fit inside the Mac mini.
And if you get the Mac mini as server, there is no need for that much capacity inside of it if you connect the HDDs externally to it, but as NAS features its own server software anyway.
I may not have come upon this reading the entire thread, thus the following question: Is it 200 TB of data you have or 200 TB of storage capacity?
Do you ever plan to take the week or two to properly sort it and consolidate the data?
Forgot about the size thanks. I already have the Mac mini was those specs I was given it at Christmas. I was planning to put new hard drives in it but forgot about the size difference.
We have 200 TB of data I've triple checked. I'm not sure how much of this can be freed up when we move to off site online storage but I plan to take a week off to start consolidating our data.
The good news is we cannot accept new clients at the moment due to our size we are fully booked to September. So there shouldn't be any large spikes in the amount of new data storage we need until then. Hopefully by then I will have home and office storage sorted.
The new G-Tech drive is light years faster than the Drobo I feel sorry for the chap I sold it to.
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