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.

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    1 year ago

    It doesn’t seem that much faster. As much as I love apple, I think you’d get more bang for your buck using a PC with specific hardware geared towards this.

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      1 year ago

      Admittedly I was mostly drawn to the clean form factor of the mini stack. It’s just so pretty.

      It was a happy bonus that Plex was originally designed for Mac and works flawlessly on Mac hardware.