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Good call and good to hear you’ve not heard anything bad about the brand. Going to use it as a NAS, few VMs (Debian with Docker and NixOS dev env) and a Plex LXC (might move to Docker), but I aim to move my PiHole to it and want to try more distros in test environments. Biggest reason for an upgrade is the potential to transcode more content, the Mini struggles (fine on Direct Play) and also the NIC is flakey so it’s using a USB adapter right now. I probably borked it replacing the HDD with a SSD, it was a nightmare to open. Not sure if I’m ready to pull the trigger, but if my hardware died, I’d maybe go this route!

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just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Looking through some of the notes there, some things to consider:

Win11 is pre installed (probably baked into the price)

Drive bays are note hot swappable

It’s Ryzen 7, so definitely not a low power device

The biggest question mark there is kernel driver compatibility if you’re running a Linux distro. I’d check around. There are also other vendors with similar form factors and price that DO have hot swappable drives. Maybe something to consider.
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- robalees@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Thanks for the heads up…
  
  I would go with no RAM and no SSD, install something I buy myself
  
  Noticed that and it was brought up in a video, is it critical for a home server to have hot swappable drives?
  
  I’m sure the Mac Mini is probably using over 15W right now, but I don’t know for certain. Any good ways to test outside of buying some hardware?
  
  Most of the videos I’ve seen online are using Proxmox which is my goal. Just trying to decide if $400 before tax without any memory or storage is a good deal or if I should just build a box.
  
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  - just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Critical…technically no. Shutting down your NAS, putting in a replacement, and waiting for the disk array to come back online is trade-off.
    
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