Mac, in their incredible wisdom has decided not to support any virtualization beyond parallels, vmware fusion, etc. Inside its custom 1u enclosure, the xmac mini server thunderbolt 3 edition securely mounts your mac mini, and connects two pcie cards to the computer through one of its thunderbolt 3 ports. Information about products not manufactured by apple, or independent websites not controlled or tested by apple, is provided without. Mac mini server mid 2011 late 2012 hard drivessd installation video macsales.
As for the other question, do you have one disk showing, or two. Enabling raid 1 on a mac mini server scotts weblog. In this video i show off the disk speeds of a 2011 mac mini server packed with quad core i7 8gb of ram, and dual 500gb 7200 rpm drives in raid 0 striped configuration. I am looking to get a mac mini, an eyetv or other tv recording system and nas to function as a media server in my living room and had several questions as to the best way to set this up correctly. Im not knocking mac s, my house hold is full of macs and my home media server is a mac mini with thunderbolt gtech raid drive for storage. Interested in using these videos on your site view our video usage policy. Apple stops selling mac mini with os x server, no longer offers 2tb storage option.
They use a mac mini server with a raid 1 set of regular spinning disks. The hard drive in side of it is too small for the tasks above, but is there a way i could attach a large external drive array with raid via usb 3 and run the mac mini in server mode to accomplish what i want to do without buying a synology nas. Boot camp does not install microsoft windows on raid volumes, including volumes provided by a raid card. The mac mini with server configuration initially shipped with an. Just a quick update for anyone who has a late 2012 mac mini server i7 processor with dual internal hd. Lacie 8tb 2big dock thunderbolt 3 raid storage previous gallery image.
My mac mini is set up with a caldigit t4 thunderbolt 2 raid. It all works fine i just dont think its enterprise grade, not even redundant psus. The small business that i do sysadmin work for on the side uses a mid2011 mac mini server running 10. Ive been using my mac mini server late 2012 for some time now in a raid 0 configuration 2 internal 1 tb hard drives, showing up in the finder as a single 2 tb volume. It ships with 2 500gb hard drives but its not configured as any kind of raid. Raid 0 and raid 1 and the other raid levels can be hardwarebased or software based. When my hardware at work was upgraded from a late 2012 mac mini single hd to a late 2014 mac mini with a fusion drive, i noticed a significant performance upgrade. Apple stops selling mac mini with os x server, no longer. The system works great but since i have upgrade my. I using a mac mini server 2012 using a raid appleraid on both internal hdd. From what i can tell, it ships with no raid setup, meaning both drives are independent. Introduced in 2002, it was apples first designated server hardware design since the apple network server in 1996. Turn a mac mini into a media server with plex if you have a large media collection, you may want to use a mac as a dedicated device to run plex.
If you do not need more than 500gb of storage you can use that second drive to add redundancy. Its 2 750gb hdds are raid 1d together, and it time machine backups over usb to a raid 1 array of 2 1 tb disks. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I also have a nightly scripted backup to clone primary drives to backup drives. Sonnet xmac mini server thunderbolt pcie 1u enclosure. At the moment my imac has become a glorified itunes server, so im considering selling it and buying an acd for my macbook pro. Raid mirroring of a server boot disk needs hardware raid for speed, and good quality hard disks from different batches for.
Lacie 8tb 2big dock thunderbolt 3 raid storage next gallery image. How do i reconfigure our mac mini server so that its two internal drives form a raid mirror. Lately, theyve been complaining that accessing the file share is slow. Mid2011 mac mini server keeps dropping a disk from raid. Mac users should check to see if a nas drive can stream files to an apple tv, or act as an itunes server, storing your itunes music library on the nas drive so that it can stream music to every. I just purchased a new mac mini server today the base configuration 2011 quad core i7 with 4gb ram and 2x 500gb 7200rpm magnetic hard disks and wanted to share what ive learned about setting up raid on the system. Turn a mac mini into a media server with plex macworld. Raid stands for redundant array of independent disks, and there are many levels of raid configuration. In this video i demonstrate every step i take to set up a mac mini as my home server for file sharing, backup, itunes duties and printing. In recent years, compact, allinone desktop pcs and mac mini systems have been replacing conventional desktop and server platforms as small to medium businesses upgrade aging computing infrastructure. After i bought the mac mini and brought it home, i was dismayed to find that apple hadnt enabled raid 1. I also have an external 2tb hdd, and a 300gb external hdd. Lacie 4tb rugged raid pro usbc hard drive with builtin sd card reader,promise pegasus32 r4 16tb raid system.
I have a mac mini in the home, a late 2012 mac mini, with 16gb ram, 256gb internal ssd, and a 500gb internal hdd. Its also remarkably simple to install, set up, and manage. And for completeness, neither raid 0 nor raid 1 is an archival strategy. Open disk utility one drive should be labelled server hd and the other macintosh hd2 remember which one is. Transform your mini pc or mac mini into a costeffective, highspeed mass storage server.
If youve purchased a mac mini server youll realize that the default configuration is two 500gb hard drives. A software raid is one that is managed by your mac, though the disks can and usually will be in an external box. Highpoint tunderbolt 3 minisystem raid server solution. If you have the storage for backing up the whole network already hanging off the mac mini server, then you can certain use it. Using os x server, you can back up every mac on your network too. Ive been using my mac mini server late 2012 for some time now in a raid 0 configuration 2 internal 1 tb hard drives, showing up in the. I have a mac mini server mid 2010, which is raid1 by default. Windows 7 and mac mini server our company has 2 pcs with windows 7 cant get pcs to talk to our mac mini server where does one get a patch so the windows can talk to the mac mini.
Best storage practices for os x server and time machine. However, id like to have an itunes server running on the network regardless of whether my macbook pro is switched on, so it. I am looking to repurpose the mac as the home server. Os x server op een mac mini installeren via een softwarematig. I think ive tried every permutation to get the system to boot with the two drives in a raid configuration including converting the volumes to apfs.
Im not going to call this video a tutorial, but if you. That will allow them to maintain a local cop of their clients drives should the server ever go down. Xserve is a line of rack unit computers designed by apple inc. Enabling raid 1 on a mac mini server scotts weblog the. The i7 quad core really kicks, runs great on performance. Owcs stepbystep video of how to install hard drives in the apple mac mini 2011 or 2012 server. After i bought the mac mini and brought it home, i was dismayed to find that apple hadnt enabled raid 1 on the dual 500gb hard drives in the system. Owcs stepbystep video of how to install dual ssds or hard drives in an apple mac mini server mid 2010. Independent contractors with access to their clients servers, for example, should still consider raid. Sonnets awardwinning xmac mini server addresses these issues and maximizes a mac mini s capabilities in a big way. I am currently running plex, and using macos file sharing features to share the files from my mac mini to my macbook pro. The network services the linux server is now providing would either be replaced by the mac mini or by vms running on the mac mini vis vmware fusion.
In the meantime, ordinary power macintosh g3 and g4 models were rebranded as macintosh server g3 and macintosh server g4 with some alterations to the hardware, such as added gigabit ethernet cards. Late 2012 mac mini server raid 0 or 1 boot under 10. Today i bought a new mac mini running mac os x server to replace an aging homebuilt linux server that supports my home network. A it is possible to configure the two internal hard drives in a mac mini server as a mirror pair, although it is perhaps not the best setup for a server. We wanted to know how the redundancy and reduced capacity of a raid 1 compared to the speed and size benefits of running a raid 0. Upgrading a 2012 mac mini from raid to fusion anthonys mac. While this post title specifically says mac mini server, this procedure will work with any macintosh that has more than one hard drive. Designed to work with macos and ios, macos server makes it easy to configure mac and ios devices. A sonnet presto gigabit pro pcie gigabit ethernet card or a presto 10gbe 1port 10 gigabit ethernet adapter card plugged into the halflength pcie card slot.
Ill show how im using a mac mini g4 as a file server. Like its predecessor, the 2011 mac mini server has two drive bays, which can see the drives individually or in a software raid 0 or 1. Large external hd array for a mac mini with raid to run the mac. Mac pro 2019 mac pro late 20 mac mini 2018 and later mac mini late 2014 more mac compatibility less mac compatibility brand brand. Windows on your mac does not recognize raid volumes, including volumes provided by a raid card.
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