Airport Extreme, Server replacement?? NOT!
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 | Author: admin
So I’ve been running an old Dell server with Windows Server 2003 as my file/backup server. It has 1TR of data that gets backed up to an external USB drive via robocopy nightly, it also gets backed up offsite monthly. Its pretty fast, it has a gigabit network card, the boot drive is SCSI and the data is mirrored on two drives for speed. Since its Server 2003 I can have multiple shares for all kinds of media and other users and permissions are very granular which is great. But I wanted to simplify it by getting rid of the server and using a NAS drive so I could waste less energy, and also use a Mac filesystem instead of SMB/NTFS since this can become difficult to manage…
I heard that Apple’s Airport Extreme was really good so I gave it a try… it has great potential but it was handicapped by Apple, they disabled basic permission/account settings so if you wanted to share folders among several users and have private folders at the same time you couldn’t. So you can share an entire drive among many users with a single password, or you can create different accounts for each user so they’ll have private folders, but cant have both! so if you wanted to share music/photos/etc with a bunch of users while maintaining other private folders you cant… so I’ll have to research LaCie’s Ethernet Bigdisks.
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