25T network storage!!
Dude, you are my hero.
I don’t own a Mac, but my next PC will be a Mac mini. But the base model, bump it to 8 GB via Amazon and $39.
I’m tired of fighting Windows, and Win8 doesn’t impress me at all. If I’m going to go through a learning curve, I think it’s best that I go through the curve that leads to a known positive experience - and for that, the Mac wins; it’s no contest.
For really simple network storage I use a WD Home Network drive, plug and play. You can get those up to 4T for about half of what I paid for my first drive. My biggest drive currently is a Drobo raid, but I have continually upgraded the Drobo as bigger drives became available, by buying externals and swapping them out, so I have lots of 1 and 2 gig externals daisy chained to my iMac.
My first 1 gig drive was made by Conner and set me back $870.00, times change :)
The new Mac Mini you are looking at will have 2 thunderbolt ports and external drives are becoming available for those ports, and a lot of wild claims about how fast they are, maybe as fast as SDD drives, then you can daisy chain a monitor to that.
I hope you enjoy your first Mac, I have never been disappointed with mine, except maybe the older G5 versions that had bad capacitors. No failures for me personally, but a couple I gave away had problems, which were covered by Apple even though they were out of warranty.