I'd recommend an Apple Mini, with a Promise Thunderbolt RAID, buying Lion Server separately for $49. I've found the Minis to be quite awesome little machines, lots of giddy up and go for something so small and cheap. There's not much reason to buy the Mini Server version if you need more than 1TB of space, and everyone does nowadays, so you might as well have an optical drive. I've bought a bunch of Mini Servers for $999 (with Snow Leopard Unlimited), and sold them two years later for about $600 each, easily. Hard to beat that deal with a "white box" PC.

Tim Sassoon

SFD

Santa Monica, CA

On Mar 7, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Alex Czetwertynski wrote:

Hello list

Wondering what people are using these days to manage media on small productions (3-4 people).  In the past I always just dedicated a single computer to serve assets to various users, but everything goes through Gigabit Ethernet and it isn't always fast enough.
Are there any good thunderbolt or other options out there that don't require super expensive cards and that can work across both Mac and PC?  Linux?

Thanks!
Alex


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