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USB3 hard drives onto a network?

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  • 29-11-2016 1:45pm
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    OU812
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    Folks, hoping you can help me out here.

    I'm putting in cable for a network in the house. as part of it, it's going to terminate in a patch panel & switch in a press, where I'll also be placing a old headless mac mini which will work as my iTunes server (USB2 4TB drive attached).

    However, I have an additional four USB3 drives which I also need to get on the network - Photos, Documents, crashplan etc.

    I was going to attach them all to the mac mini. I know I'm not going to get full USB 3 speed out of them, but is there an alternate way I could go to get them on as network shares?


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    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,167 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    USB 2 will give you just shy of 60MB/s (400Mb/s), plenty for home use. Only time you might notice would be doing full system backups.


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    OU812
    Registered Users Posts: 6,050 ✭✭✭OU812


    Thanks Ed. Any ideas how I could get them on the network?


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    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,167 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    A rasberry Pi can share them if you like, or some routers have a similar feature.

    Lots of people use Mac Minis, would let you run any other serviecs you wanted such as the itunes server, Plex, Owncloud, a VPN host etc.


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    degsie
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    Have a look at Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions. Plenty on Amazon, best being Synology and QNAP.


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    Germancarfan
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    depends on the exisiting drives , you might be able to strip them from their current chassis and then use a NAS case to present them on the network
    Any drive models of what you have already ?


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    PrzemoF
    Registered Users Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭PrzemoF


    ED E wrote: »
    A rasberry Pi can share them if you like, or some routers have a similar feature.

    Lots of people use Mac Minis, would let you run any other serviecs you wanted such as the itunes server, Plex, Owncloud, a VPN host etc.
    RPi is great, but it can't handle that speed - search before you buy!


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