Right - the reason I have been so reluctant is noise -- so all the Accidental Tech Podcast guys have Synologys -- which they got for free from Synology as part of their advertising -- and they keep them in places like their garage. Guessing the noise was way too loud compared to the Macs and...
The main reason I need to eventually upgrade my 2009 Mac Pro to a new one is that ~50TB worth of data on its 4 internal drives. The new Mac Pro is too expensive and now off the table until it gets upgrade to Apple M CPUs, but were I to get a Mini, I'd need to figure out external storage for the...
The good news is that those drives keep getting bigger - we are currently up to at least 16TB drives. Compressing stuff makes sense, but time is $$ plus other precious portions of your life - family, friends, actually watching the movies...