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Lets say you have a family photo album with 10,000 images well 10 or 20 files will have errors. Both the Apple macOS Finder and the ios "Files" are error prone. any type of bundled image puts another layer of complexity when it come time to recover a backukp file. looked at varrious forums of "sparse disk image", "sparse bundle" with & without compression and or encryption and the resulting bakcups from these approaches was actually a larger file size than just copy the file(s) over I found out a lot of modern file formats are already compressed so wast of time to try and compressed them any further Last year I re did my home network backup: #Chronosync sparse bundle software#What would be the best solution considering cost/speed/useability? Running the Mac mini with external disks or going for an external enclosure (hardware or software raid)? Could I connect to that enclosure like a DAS while keeping it available on the network over my Mac mini? I can place the mini close to my switch and main workstation (for photo and video editing). ![]() I have a Canon DSLR that shoots 40MB RAW files and 4K footage. #Chronosync sparse bundle how to#but how to configure the Mac mini for file serving purposes. and I think I might hold on to that QNAP for IP cams, pics, backup files. But Plex? Too slow, and for a 4K transcoding NAS the cost skyrockets. #Chronosync sparse bundle Pc#A fast NAS needs multiple drives and better hardware (and gets more pc like features and power usage). So my question concerning speed, reliability, uptime.: do I need a NAS or a file server? Both have advantages. NO GO! It's better to get a 10GbE NAS and get a TB3 to 10GbE adapter. So I got back to QNAP TB-NAS reviews and costs. Up until now I was running a TB3 drive or external SSD's and that goes very fast (HP TB3 drive, Samsung T5, Sandisk extreme). That should do it for quite some years to come. that means: multi gig managed switch and CAT 7 cabling. Performs (1Gb network) like more expensive models. The M1 in particular is very well suited to the task IMO. Everything else stays the same - I guess the only other thing I needed to buy was a TB3 to TB2 adapter. I've gone from a 2012 2.3 i7, to a 2012 2.6 i7, to a 2018 3.0 i5, and now to the M1, selling the previous one to help offset the cost for the new one. However, the only thing I've upgraded over time is the Mac mini itself. Yes, the initial investment for the enclosures and HDDs was substantial. The M1 never gets hot, and what I'm asking it to do barely taxes the CPU or RAM at all. I use one of the WD external drives (8TB) for SecuritySpy continuous/motion captures, and the other two are for network Time Machine backups of our other macs. These house all of my media files for Plex. The RAID enclosures are set up with RAID5 one RAID backs up the other. My current setup is a base-config M1 Mac mini, with 2x Thunderbay 4 RAID enclosures (running soft raid beta), 3x 8TB USB 3.0 WD external HDDs. My other macs back up to the server with Time Machine. I run Plex, SecuritySpy, and occasionally use Transmission for BT. This is after having used a Synology NAS. I've used a Mac mini as a network storage device in my home for 8 years, and I'm quite happy with how it's performed. #Chronosync sparse bundle movie#My movie library is ~5000 files so indexing it takes forever the first time) SO I am splitting the services between devices at the moment. I find indexing on my QNAP for Plex and Jellyfin was causing some performance issues if I also had docker or VMs running. (the reason I am running my Mac mini as a docker server is just to play around with it and it has 64gb. I mean I have been doing this forever, ask questions if you want. No hardware raid capability at the moment as far as I know AND can't reliably run iscsi in Big Sur on an intel and can not run it at all on a M1 at the moment. Mac minis can work but rely on usb thunderbolt or other external storage. MAc - Probably more powerful, but more fluff running at a time. Anything above "entry level" is basically a PC at this point. QNAPs and other brands have a ton of things that can be installed, some of the faster ones run big boy processors and can take gpu etc. ![]() NAS - quiet, dedicated, run for months without complaining. I can sustain about 550 between everything read/write. I also use 10gbe to interconnect them all since one of the NAS is my storage for my two Mac minis with 256gb system drives. #Chronosync sparse bundle full#I currently have 4 QNAPs for various things (Plex, Radarr, Sonarr, NZBGet at about 100TB total storage) and an Intel Mac mini running Docker for some other things (Jellyfin and PiHole full time at the moment). Runtime on a MacBook Air with nothing attached is great, but we are talking servers. ![]()
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