I just don't like the high rpms and I think it will fry the computer at some time. Is this normal? I have 16gb memory, a ssd which houses the OS and an external usb 2.0 drive where I house all my stuff. I have had a problem with my mac mini 2011 as when I run itunes or turn on plex and it starts streaming to my roku, the fan inside the imac goes up to 7500 or 8000 RPM's. I love the setup and I've recently created my own server which is very like the one described. Given the premise of the article, the Samsung drives you mention are terrible solutions. Windows, Mac and Linux OS’s still require logging into and managaing them, maintaining them etc They are not designed to be headless, don’t have reporting via email or notifications for system issues either, I would avoid them unless you absolutely need their functionality. Rockstor uses BTRFS for the filesystem and RAID and it’s not stable yet. I recommend this over FreeNAS because that uses ZFS and you can’t add single drives to expand a RAID 5/6 which most people find out too late. It has so many plugins too and also docker, you can run anything on these things. You can also install virtual machines which is great too. Synology has BTRFS running over mdadm RAID and it’s highly integrated. Their real hardware is great too, haven’t had any issues. You can google Xpenology which is a bootloader to use Synology OS (Synology DSM) on your own hardware. ![]() I would say the best overall is Synology by far. I’ve done Windows Server, mac Server, Linux Server, FreeNAS Server, Rockstor Server and Synology Server over about 15 years. Sonnet Fusion Thunderbolt 3 PCIe Flash Drive with 2600 MB/s (read) & 1600 MB/s (writed) with Samsung 960 insideĪnd for internal storage, Samsung 960 PRO with massive sequential R/W (read/write) speeds up to 3,500/2,100 MB/s and random R/W speeds up to 440/360K IOPS, respectively.Īctually, the new iMac 27-inch Retina 5K Display (mid 2017) 2TB is APPLE SSD SM2048L, which seems similar to Samsung 960 Pro (sequential 3,500/2,100 MB/s & random 440/360K IOPS read/write). As the current Mac, which is not truly a Mac (mac OS 9 and earlier) but Unix renamed as Mac.Ĭoncerning external storage, nothing like Samsung Portable SSD T5 with 540 MB/s ![]() Historically speaking… there was Workgroup Server 95Īnd it was not a Mac (mac OS 9 and earlier), but a Unix beast inside with Mac-like Graphical User Interface inside. I suspect that the fact that it only does that, and quite nothing else in the background, which is quite the opposite of the Mac mini, plays a big role in my preference. Last point: my Mac mini and its predecessors have always been connected to a TV, but I ended up quickly preferring the Apple TV for watching media. With the limitation of FW800 being the fastest external port of this Mac (it only has USB2) this works very well to get large and not too slow storage. One modification I made is make a DIY Fusion drive from a 200GB in the internal SSD and a 8TB external FireWire 800 drive (2 4GB disks in a LaCie Big DIsk enclosure). I have a 2010 Mac mini server, with big modifications for audio quality. ![]() The main use of my Mac mini is now as a backup for my cloud services (iCloud photos, Dropbox mainly) I just use them now for Time Machine (and switch them monthly between hot and cold). I had some Drobo S as primary storage and they are a real pain and totally unreliable, which is the opposite of why I purchased them. I have also put some custom security in place. I use Remotix to remote access my Mac from my iPhone and iPad ans it is very efficient albeit not free. I haven't yet read all comments so sorry if I repeat what others have said already.įor iTunes "conversion", I strongly recommend iFlicks, which only converts the container to MP4, and converts video and audio streams only if necessary.įor streaming video from the server, I am very satisfied of AirVideo HD (which only has iOS and tvOS clients).Īnd for streaming, I am moving form iTunes to Infuse, which just plays everything without the need for any conversion (and also supports cloud base storage, which is also something I am moving to).
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