ill start with im not anywhere familiar with macs but doing this to help my fathers company
Here is what im looking for
this is for a business that deals in graphic design
they have 7 macs doing graphic design and 3 pc's doing the billing/sales/invoices
i need a 10TB+ raid storage that is mainly going to be used by the macs but the pc guys will need to be able to log into the server and drop/retrieve files
this will all be local files but what im looking for is a backup system raid 1 or similar for redundant backup
Does the server have an available thunderbolt connector? If not you should be looking at adding additional internal storage or if that isn't an option get a network attached storage(nas).
Personally I want to build a nas that runs a distro such as freenas or nas4free to handle my media storage needs.