I am a Video Editor, currently working from a couple of RAID drives for all my media in my Mac Pro, but more Macs are now being added to the office and I need to work out a central storage solution.
I have a spare PC at my disposal, so the idea is to make use of this, by either having the Macs connect to it to access its drives while it's just running standard Windows 7, or whether it's worth turning it into a dedicated file server, using something like FreeNAS or similar.
Can someone help explain the benefits of turning it into a file server? And is it worth sacrificing what could be a backup render machine for this? Or will just connecting to the PC (via ethernet) offer enough functionality for multiple video streams?
Thanks in advance!
I have a spare PC at my disposal, so the idea is to make use of this, by either having the Macs connect to it to access its drives while it's just running standard Windows 7, or whether it's worth turning it into a dedicated file server, using something like FreeNAS or similar.
Can someone help explain the benefits of turning it into a file server? And is it worth sacrificing what could be a backup render machine for this? Or will just connecting to the PC (via ethernet) offer enough functionality for multiple video streams?
Thanks in advance!
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