Serving video files with PC's

Using OS X Server, I would like to set up a video file network at work. We have nine GRaid external hard drives and six PC laptops running AVID. Is it possible to get a Mac Mini running OS X server that would control the external hard drives through a Cat 5 network? Thanks.

Welcome to the forums.
Adding a few more words around your requirements and your goals and around the configuration you are envisioning here could help better tailor an answer here; I'm making a few guesses here, such as that you're planning to hook these G-RAID disks to the Mac Mini box.
If you're looking to serve files via the web, that usually involves DNS configuration or switch settings; a way to get an http request set to any of a pool of replicated servers, or to get the http request sent to the server that has the files. If you're just looking to serve a big pool of disk storage, a Mac Mini can provide that.
You can connect a G-RAID disk via FireWire 800 or USB up to the limit on the numbers of ports you have available on the Mac Mini. And the Mac Mini can serve storage via SMB. (And you don't need Mac OS X Server for disk services for 10 or fewer clients, Mac OS X client can provide that. That written, Server does provide other capabilities.)
Cat 5 is fairly slow these days and video is generally a whole lot of data, and you'll want to look at Cat 5enh or Cat 6 wiring and one or more switches and at establishing a Gigabit Ethernet LAN here.
For purposes of comparison, I can run three to four DTV HD streams through a Mac Mini out to a FireWire 800 disk; these are compressed streams. If you're running uncompressed HD (as can be the case with Avid) then you're going to need substantially more bandwidth. As for other interconnects that can be used here, USB is somewhat slower than FireWire 400 (400, not 800) in my experience; I'd expect about 200 Mbps or so.

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