[RKDinOKC]

Jim, you weren't able to use the Migration Assistant?

We had a Mac Xserver that the drive interface board died. I got a replacement Xserve on ebay for $100. All that needed to be done was pop the two hard drives in their slots, plug in the Fiber channel board, and connect the 24 Terabyte Raid Array and it would be back up and running with all the permissions set thru the Active Directory. They didn't want to wait one day for it to arrive so instead...they plugged the fiber channel card into an old Mac tower and spent 2 days moving the 9 Terabytes of Mac indesign and photoshop files to a PC based NAS. Then they spent another day trying to re-setup all the permissions.

They have been having permission problems almost every other day since. They have also been having problems with the files themselves as most of the users are the various art and literature people on Macs and are having problems with the files stored on the PC file system. The users are also complaining about how slow getting to and saving files is now. The Xserve had 2 gigabit network connections that ganged up to double the access speed.

My proposal 2 years ago was turned down to upgrade the 9 year old Xserve to a 1U rack mount box that holds 2 mac minis and the fiber channel controller that had failover between the 2 mac minis. The total cost was $2000. They spent 3 times that to put the data on PC NAS and a second NAS server to back it up because "Mac minis are not enterprise."

Hey, at least they didn't put all that data on cloud storage!

Oh and since the file server is not on a Mac any more I ain't responsible for nuthin no more. I've been managing that data on Mac servers since 1991.