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    8-bay JBOD direct-attached storage enclosure: recommendations

    Planning to replace my aging Mac Mini with the Mac Studio, I simply need to store lots of files somewhere, but don’t need the full NAS or RAID experience, and would very much like to learn your opinion on the available options, please.:) This is what I found so far: TerraMaster D6-320 6-bay...
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    6-bay direct-attached storage enclosure: recommendations

    Dear experts, I simply need to store lots of files somewhere, but don’t need the full NAS or RAID experience, and would very much like to learn your opinion on the recommended available options, please. TerraMaster D6-320 6-bay External USB DAS is the only product I found so far… I do need...
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    TerraMaster D6-320 6-bay External USB DAS: your experience

    Dear experts, I am considering the above, and would very much like to learn your opinion on the real-world performance of this DAS, please. I was unable to find any reviews, and do need your input badly indeed. Please chime in!:)
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    Real world speeds of OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad RAID 4-Bay Storage Enclosure?

    Can somebody share or link write and read speeds of this box with regular 4-8TB hdd’s in softraid-5? https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MEQCTJB000/
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    Mac mini file server - need help

    I have a 2020 Mac mini with 10gbe upgrade and 32gb ram. Im currently using it as a pseudo file server running Mac OS server. Its doing a reasonably solid job for my use case. I have 2x 1tb NVMe SSD via thunderbolt 3 that my wife and I are using as Time Machine backups for our respective...
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    How to attach encrypted HFS+ drives to a network?

    I know that people have asked this sort of question before, but I've always found it geared specifically for their own equipment, rather than in a general sense. How do users out there attach an encrypted drive to a network, be it a hard drive or raid, be it attached via ethernet or via a USB...
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    2 Macs - "best of both worlds" NAS / DAS - AFP vs NFS re permissions

    Our family has 2 iMacs and I want us to be able to use either one of them and have access to all of our files the same way as if they were on a local drive / DAS. So, I bought a QNAP Thunderbolt NAS (perhaps overkill ;-) because that's exactly one of the scenarios they advertise (having a NAS...