Dear All
After a while of silent contemplating I just signed up for an active user account. English is not my mother tongue, so if you find any errors, please feel free to ignore them.
I recently upgraded from a Mid 2010 MBP 13" (pentium dual core, Upgraded to seagate 500 GB "hybrid" HDD including 16 GB of flash memory and 8 GB of RAM) to a 2017 MPB 15" (2,8 GHz i7) and am very happy with the performance.
The old MBP was connected to a 1 TB WD external HDD for the storage of several iPhoto libraries (at this point amounting to 650 GB of photo material). One 4 TB dual disk WD external HDD in Raid 0 for the storage of my wive's Lightroom photos (this configuration was chosen in 2013 due to the greater speed, when handling the photos) with a 3 TB WD single disk external HDD for backup of the Lightroom photos. All external HDDs are daisy chained through FW800. The backup of the old MBP and the external first WD HDD (the iPhoto-WD) was done on a Airport Time Capsule 3 TB (2015), which also functioned as a wireless access point for the upper story of our house, connected through a patch cable to the wireless router on the ground floor.
Now I have several issues I would like to resolve.
1. The time machine backup of the old MBP was too big to be moved in it's entirety to a 2 TB Verbatim external HDD (5400 U/min), that was laying around in the cupboard, but I wanted to keep it, before deleting my last possibility to restore important data from before the update (my wive was still working on Lightroom 4 for example and we won't have time to double check the stability of an upgrade to LR Classic CC). So I attached the 2 TB Verbatim to the USB-Port of the AirPort The Capsule. It just seems, that the TM backup of the new MBP with the transferred Fotos Libraries on the external HDD attached through an OWC USB-C Hub are not doing the backup properly. When the external HDD is not attached, the TM backup is extremely slow.
2. I would like to move my iTunes library off the new MBP. I just invested in a Bluesound streaming module and would like to listen to my some 1000+ albums on the iPhones and the iPad in the house, as well as on the blue sound equipped stereo - using or the bluesound app or Roon.
3. I have very few movies on my MBP, that can be streamed to a Samsung set-top-box using Twonky server, so being able to use Twonky from a centralized server would be nice, but is probably the less important feature.
4. The old MBP goes to my mother in law in the same house and will need a proper backup.
5. It would be nice to have a home server for files, that can be exchanged in the home network and with a expandable storage size.
To sum it up - What setup would you choose in my situation? I was thinking about a Mac mini but am reluctant to buy a new mini, that would cost me another 975 bucks if I want an SSD in order to be able to run Roon. Used 2012 models with Quad Core i7 and SSD are to be found for around 500, i5 models around 300 here in Switzerland. On the other hand - Is the lack of a USB-C port "future proof"? And how would you solve the expandable storage and backup question? I thought of a DAS-Solution, for example a Drobo 5C, but can it be set up as a mass storage and TM backup machine for three Macs (old and now MBP and mini server) at the same time? What to do with my existing Airport Time Capsule?
How would you realize a iTunes/roon/file server, Lightroom machine etc... environment? How to cost effectively backup the whole thing?
Thank you in advance.
Regards
Daniel
After a while of silent contemplating I just signed up for an active user account. English is not my mother tongue, so if you find any errors, please feel free to ignore them.
I recently upgraded from a Mid 2010 MBP 13" (pentium dual core, Upgraded to seagate 500 GB "hybrid" HDD including 16 GB of flash memory and 8 GB of RAM) to a 2017 MPB 15" (2,8 GHz i7) and am very happy with the performance.
The old MBP was connected to a 1 TB WD external HDD for the storage of several iPhoto libraries (at this point amounting to 650 GB of photo material). One 4 TB dual disk WD external HDD in Raid 0 for the storage of my wive's Lightroom photos (this configuration was chosen in 2013 due to the greater speed, when handling the photos) with a 3 TB WD single disk external HDD for backup of the Lightroom photos. All external HDDs are daisy chained through FW800. The backup of the old MBP and the external first WD HDD (the iPhoto-WD) was done on a Airport Time Capsule 3 TB (2015), which also functioned as a wireless access point for the upper story of our house, connected through a patch cable to the wireless router on the ground floor.
Now I have several issues I would like to resolve.
1. The time machine backup of the old MBP was too big to be moved in it's entirety to a 2 TB Verbatim external HDD (5400 U/min), that was laying around in the cupboard, but I wanted to keep it, before deleting my last possibility to restore important data from before the update (my wive was still working on Lightroom 4 for example and we won't have time to double check the stability of an upgrade to LR Classic CC). So I attached the 2 TB Verbatim to the USB-Port of the AirPort The Capsule. It just seems, that the TM backup of the new MBP with the transferred Fotos Libraries on the external HDD attached through an OWC USB-C Hub are not doing the backup properly. When the external HDD is not attached, the TM backup is extremely slow.
2. I would like to move my iTunes library off the new MBP. I just invested in a Bluesound streaming module and would like to listen to my some 1000+ albums on the iPhones and the iPad in the house, as well as on the blue sound equipped stereo - using or the bluesound app or Roon.
3. I have very few movies on my MBP, that can be streamed to a Samsung set-top-box using Twonky server, so being able to use Twonky from a centralized server would be nice, but is probably the less important feature.
4. The old MBP goes to my mother in law in the same house and will need a proper backup.
5. It would be nice to have a home server for files, that can be exchanged in the home network and with a expandable storage size.
To sum it up - What setup would you choose in my situation? I was thinking about a Mac mini but am reluctant to buy a new mini, that would cost me another 975 bucks if I want an SSD in order to be able to run Roon. Used 2012 models with Quad Core i7 and SSD are to be found for around 500, i5 models around 300 here in Switzerland. On the other hand - Is the lack of a USB-C port "future proof"? And how would you solve the expandable storage and backup question? I thought of a DAS-Solution, for example a Drobo 5C, but can it be set up as a mass storage and TM backup machine for three Macs (old and now MBP and mini server) at the same time? What to do with my existing Airport Time Capsule?
How would you realize a iTunes/roon/file server, Lightroom machine etc... environment? How to cost effectively backup the whole thing?
Thank you in advance.
Regards
Daniel
