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After years of struggling with a NAS from a well known manufacturer, my solution is a 2012 Mac Mini. I replaced the internal 2,5" HDD with an 8TB SATA SSD. Adv
by newaccount74 3y ago
After years of struggling with a NAS from a well known manufacturer, my solution is a 2012 Mac Mini. I replaced the internal 2,5" HDD with an 8TB SATA SSD.
Advantages:
- extremely reliable
- completely silent
- low power usage
- all in one (no external drives, no external power brick)
Disadvantage:
- no longer officially supports latest macOS
- lostlogin 3y agoAssuming you’re talking about Synology? Why is network attached storage so unreliable with macOS?
- newaccount74 3y agoTime Machine itself worked okay on Synology, it was just slow, despite two 480GB SSD cache drives. My main issue were normal network shares where I had issues with unicode characters in filenames and with symbolic links. Depending on whether you'd use SMB or AFP one thing or another was broken. My Mac Mini now works flawlessly. Time Machine is still slow, though, I think it's just a slow protocol.