Hey /r/networking!
Happy to find a subreddit for this kind of topic and get some advice on this. I'm a web programmer in a small company of designers so I'm not exactly a specialist in networking, but being the most computer-savvy person at work they nominated me as the dude to set up a better solution to what we have now.
Basically, we work with Macs and currently we share our work files via a Mac Mini complete with Apple Server bought via the App Store. Everything mostly works and has served us well for many years – with TimeMachine we got a good backup system going with backup hard drives that we switch out every week.
However, our designers (who work with InDesign and large video/photo files primarily) would love to get more performance out of the server, which struggles to keep up and frequently bottlenecks our productivity. We believe that switching to a RAID might be a much better solution (we were looking at a G-Tech Raid 16 TB) but we admittedly know very little about how those work and as I'm not a specialist I can't make a judgement call on it at the moment so I'm researching what options we have. I think that replacing our Mac Mini with e.g. a Mac Pro might possibly vastly improve performance but we're not a big enough agency to justify spending that cash if there's other options. What do you guys think?
(Our Mac Mini is a 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5, 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM)
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