#MAC MINI SERVER ARRAY PRO#

The server model in particular led to a large amount of people looking for solutions to rack mount their Mac Mini. I no longer have to worry about space since I can plan well ahead for that. Since Mac Minis came into the market in 2009, there have been Р В Р’В Р В РІР‚В Р В Р’В Р Р†Р вЂљРЎв„ўР В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’ВserverР В Р’В Р В РІР‚В Р В Р’В Р Р†Р вЂљРЎв„ўР В Р вЂ Р Р†Р вЂљРЎвЂєР РЋРЎвЂє versions and Р В Р’В Р В РІР‚В Р В Р’В Р Р†Р вЂљРЎв„ўР В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’ВregularР В Р’В Р В РІР‚В Р В Р’В Р Р†Р вЂљРЎв„ўР В Р вЂ Р Р†Р вЂљРЎвЂєР РЋРЎвЂє versions. Still, I have over 2TB of media reasonably secure and all Macs are backed up via TM. Cons are that the initial investment was high and that having my iTunes library on the Drobo means I can't do a time machine backup on that.

#MAC MINI SERVER ARRAY PRO#

Pros were that I could grow the storage space as drives got cheaper, recycle old drives, have a safety net if drives fail and also use as a Time Machine backup. Network Room - Fibre ethernet Roon Nucleus -> Mac mini M1 HQPlayer Server -> Ubiquiti UDM Pro + 16 PoE & dedicated 8 PoE switch for audio hardware all connected via fibre. Im looking to spend no more than Р В Р’В Р Р†Р вЂљРІвЂћСћР В Р’В Р Р†РІР‚С™Р’В¬500 but have been eyeing a dl360 currently Р В Р’В Р Р†Р вЂљРІвЂћСћР В Р’В Р Р†РІР‚С™Р’В¬640.

Then as the library got bigger, it was getting hard to store the media on an external drive and also back up. Apple Silicon Mac Mini M1 as a Server running docker (when available) Im looking at replacing my lenovo TS440 (32GB RAM, Raid card 4 x 2TB HDD 2 x SSD) that is running Freenas, PFSense, win 10, Ubuntu running docker with 13 containers (including plex). The rMBP should last a good few years and is definitely an improvement over the mini.Р В Р’В Р Р†Р вЂљРЎСљР В Р’В Р Р†Р вЂљР Р‹or storage space, I moved away from internal drives with the mini. Now I use a first gen rMBP (2012) that was retired when I got my touch bar MBP. Of course, the new 2019 Mac Pro will have T2 (or T3, maybe) chips and fast H.265 encoding as well. Thats because there is hardware acceleration built into the T2 for H.265. The host mac has evolved from a G4 tower bought in the late 90s to a 2009 Mac mini. A Mac Pro H.264 render that took 58 seconds now runs at 23 seconds on the Mac Mini and the H.265 render took precisely the same amount of time, at 23 seconds. Initially just music, ripping all my CDs plus some vinyl.

I have had a media server in several forms since iTunes first came into being.

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