SwisherSweet
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I'm looking at building a few remote backup servers using these Macs:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-core-i5-2.5-late-2012-specs.html
It will have 16GB of RAM and FreeNAS running on internal drive and external drives for the pool. I realize USB external drives not ideal, but that's all I have to work with.
Other than the USB drive setup, is there any other problem I might run into with this machine?
All this machine will do is be a remote backup target. If it's not replicating data from our main server, it will sit idle.
The only concern I have is the processor. Will it support compression and encryption? Since this server will be a colocation, I want to protect my data on the USB drives.
If the CPU isn't strong enough, I also considered the i7 version:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-core-i7-2.3-late-2012-specs.html
But, I won't to keep my cost low and since the machine will sit idle 99% of the time, I didn't think I would need the extra cores.
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-core-i5-2.5-late-2012-specs.html
It will have 16GB of RAM and FreeNAS running on internal drive and external drives for the pool. I realize USB external drives not ideal, but that's all I have to work with.
Other than the USB drive setup, is there any other problem I might run into with this machine?
All this machine will do is be a remote backup target. If it's not replicating data from our main server, it will sit idle.
The only concern I have is the processor. Will it support compression and encryption? Since this server will be a colocation, I want to protect my data on the USB drives.
If the CPU isn't strong enough, I also considered the i7 version:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-core-i7-2.3-late-2012-specs.html
But, I won't to keep my cost low and since the machine will sit idle 99% of the time, I didn't think I would need the extra cores.