I’ve been running a full tower Windows server with a dozen drives for a decade and decided to downsize. This ministack does everything I need at a fraction of the power, noise, and heat.
I use it primarily for Plex but also host a few games servers for buddies. It fits perfectly in my entertainment center.
Spent around $200 on the Mac Mini plus $600 on the drives and enclosures. I’m using SoftRAID for RAID1.
It’s a pity that also the RAM and SSD are a steal.
250€ to add 8gb RAM and another 250€ to add 250gb SSD. Prices that even ten years ago didn’t make sense…
I wish they sold the M2 motherboard with standard DDR 5 and m.2 slots. I’d pay 1000€ for that and i wouldn’t even want the fancy aluminum case
No, unfortunately it’s all soldered https://www.macworld.com/article/1677460/mac-mini-upgrade-hub-storage-ethernet-sd-card-ports.html
So when the single flash chip degrades, the whole unit automatically becomes e-waste instead of a simple $25 fix