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Aug 29, 2016 4:01 PM in response to angiefromsydneyby lllaass,Just what do you want to accomplish with the Min as a hub?
You can connect two Macs via Thunderbolt as a fast network
http://www.macworld.com/article/2142073/connecting-two-macs-using-thunderbolt.ht ml
USB does not natively support connections between two computers.
If you connect the three computer to the same network via Ethernet and use Gigabit components (switches, cable and router) you can share files very fast.
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by John Lockwood,Sep 1, 2016 5:34 AM in response to angiefromsydney
John Lockwood
Sep 1, 2016 5:34 AM
in response to angiefromsydney
Level 6 (9,230 points)
Servers EnterpriseI am guessing you want both iMacs to share the storage of your 20TB and 8TB drives.
Normally a hard drive can only be directly connected to a single computer at a time, normally to share storage to multiple computers you would use a computer as a 'server' and the other computers would access the storage over the network via that server. A Mac mini could certainly do this for you and the speed would be limited by the speed of your network. The built-in Ethernet on Mac mini and iMac computers is 1Gbps. It is possible to get a 10Gbps Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter which if you also get a 10Gbps Ethernet switch would obviously be much faster.
See http://www.sonnettech.com/product/twin10g.html
or http://www.promise.com/us/Products/SANLink/SANLink2/10G-BaseT
However there is another approach designed specifically for the use you want to make i.e. video editing.
See http://www.h3platform.com/thunderbolt.html
This uses Thunderbolt to link multiple Macs directly to shared storage. You will not be able to use your existing drives. It is also going to be expensive but it will be fast.