I also got excited about the idea of running Hazel to shuffle around files as part of our management of data. Listening to the episode on MacMini as a server I got the idea that perhaps this would be a neat solution, especially if I hung a 6TB Thunderbold HD off of the MM, and set up a daily clone, and perhaps a Backblaze backup. I am wary of NAS drives and RAID as I have had many people in our industry wrestle with problems over the years, I myself have also buried four NAS drives during the lifespan of this magical Thecus of mine.
While four of the staff are working from the NAS all day, we keep a regular archiving routine and the capacity rarely goes over 4TB. In the most part it has kept up, but it needs replacing.
We run a printing business with about 12 staff, and all of the production routes through the Thecus.
I have a Thecus NAS N5200pro drive that has been in service for many many years, it’s been quite the workhorse.
