Thunderbolt Hard Drive....

[StanleyYelnats]

I have a small home network. I am hoping to centralize the file location of my photos and videos.

I have purchased a man mini server.

I want to attach an external hard drive using thunderbolt.

I want to know what the gotchas are using the external over the network.

Also any recommendations of thunderbolt capable external hard drives.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

If you have a Gigabit Ethernet, you will be limited by that speed (80 to 120 MB/s), thus you could make do with a Firewire 800 HDD.
If not, and you want a Thunderbolt HDD, Lacie and WD do sell ones, but they are not as inexpensive as Firewire 800 ones. You could also look into NAS devices, HDDs in a case, that can be attached to your network via your router and a Gigabit Ethernet cable.

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