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Our SMB design office is media-heavy, with lots of very large raw photo shoots and source video files. We've been using Apple Server for file sharing for a long
by joemaller1 8y ago
Our SMB design office is media-heavy, with lots of very large raw photo shoots and source video files. We've been using Apple Server for file sharing for a long time (running on Mac minis). All other services have been migrated or abandoned. At some point we need to switch to a Windows or Linux SMB server, cloud storage is still cost-prohibitive with the file sizes we're throwing around.
edit: File sharing was on Server.app, now it's just plain macOS-flavored SMB
- fs111 8y agoConsider a synology NAS. They are made for a use case like that.
- tracker1 8y agoBeen really happy with mine... still running a DS-409+ with 4x 4TB drives. Will probably upgrade or homebrew a freenas box again. Still sour from my last freenas experience in 2012 though.
- amaccuish 8y agoI'd go for Samba on linux over Windows for Macs, as they have vfs_fruit [0] which includes the apple smb extensions for performance. [0] https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/vfs_fruit.8.html https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/vfs_fruit....