I’m not sure I would think you probably are limited but don’t take that to the
bank. External would probably be your best path forward but others more
informed may have a better answer for you.
One thing I would put on your RADAR if you’re not already familiar is if you’re
really in to all these server applications but they are relatively low traffic
etc you should look at Raspberry Pi devices. You get a 8 gigabyte RAM package,
4 USB, gigabit ethernet, SSD card slot, 4 or 8 core ARM processor, full video
and audio and more for the whopping price of $35.00 US. For $75 or so you can
get a complete kit on amazon including fans, case, main board, SSD card, break
out boards and everything you need and it’s very friendly to use with out
vision so good on both the accessibility side as well as the physical side of
working with the hardware.
Just a suggestion you may take it or leave it just wanted to pass it on. I
make little phone systems with them that can serve 24 or 48 calls at a time in
parallel, fax, auto attendant, full Queuing and on and on. So just wanted to
put that out there.
Thanks
On Jul 23, 2020, at 9:41 AM, Dane Trethowan <grtdane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Okay so for another question if you don’t mind.
I’m considering turning this new machine into a dedicated Plex Media Server
so can I add another hard drive internally or is that only for Mac Server
machines.
On 23 Jul 2020, at 11:37 pm, Scott Granados <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think you’ll be surprised how much difference it can make. Now Fusion
drives should be faster than regular rotating because of the caches involved
etc but still you should see a definite bump in disk access speed.
On Jul 23, 2020, at 9:14 AM, Dane Trethowan <grtdane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Will be interesting to compare how this Mac mini machine with its dedicated
SSD will perform compared to my 2017 iMac machines and 2019 Macbook.
On 23 Jul 2020, at 10:59 pm, Dane Trethowan <grtdane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Something to look forward to in other words <smile>.
-----Original Message-----
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<mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Scott Granados
Sent: Thursday, 23 July 2020 10:21 PM
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Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: Another Late 2012 Mac mini Model
Absolutely, SSD drives are drastically faster than mechanical drives or
hybrid drives. Some things will be similar if they were stored in the
memory portion / cache but when you go all SSD it’s optimized and
considering there’s no moving parts they scream as far as speed is
concerned.
On Jul 23, 2020, at 6:43 AM, Dane Trethowan <grtdane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Yes, this should arrive next week.
I have several of these wonderful machines in residents here in various
parts of the house performing different tasks.
I have 2 server machines which have 2 1TB hard drives in them and I
have 3 other machines with 1TB hard drives plus a 128GB SSD Drive (Fusion
drives in other words) The machine I’m expecting next week has a 1TB SSD
drive so to the obvious question I guess, should I expect to see any
performance gains from a machine with a dedicated SSD drive over a
machine with a Fusion drive?
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