The Mac Mini M4 is unbeatable as a home server imo.
How do you figure that?
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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 11 hours ago
Yep I changed my whole setup recently - had a Synology DS920+ running with docker containers for everything. I had started moving stuff off to a NUC because the NAS was starting to struggle.
What I ended up doing was buying a Mac Mini M4 and a DAS, and just running everything on the Mac with it running 24/7, and the DAS just acts like a giant HDD (and it’s running in RAID). Performance of everything is out of this world better, while power draw is significantly less. The Mac Mini M4 is unbeatable as a home server imo.
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 10 hours ago
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 hours ago
It’s insanely powerful yet sips power like a raspberry pi.
It has a full OS that is mainstream so it’s easy to find any help you need.
It’s the best bang for your buck machine on the market.
It can run everything you want a home server to run.
Do you disagree? Why?
frongt@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Well, it’s apple hardware and runs macos, so it’s a bit kneecapped. It’s not as flexible. But it is solid and you can run almost anything you can on Linux.
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 9 hours ago
I wouldn’t have even thought to purchase a new Mac anything as a server. That is definitely not their target use case.
What are you running at home that requires “insane power?” I’m running a servarr stack on an old Xeon that cost a fraction of a Mac mini and it works just fine. And I have room in the case for full size HDDs.
I’ve heard of people using Mac mini as servers, and I guess whatever makes you happy. I definitely don’t see how they’re the ultimate home server.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 7 hours ago
I can have a dozen people streaming from my Plex server and it spent even break a sweat, while also handling all my *arr’s, homeassistant OS, and basically anything I would use a normal computer for.
With the power it has it will be able to handle basically anything I want to throw at it for the next decade, while sipping electricity like a light bulb.
I don’t see how a tiny, cheap, insanely powerful, insanely power efficient, full OS running machine isn’t the ultimate home server?
themadcodger@kbin.earth 10 hours ago
This is what I've been trying to figure out, so I'm glad you did it. I have a Synology too and I've outgrown it, but building my own server scratch is daunting so I just wanted to hook a DAS up to a mini PC and call it good. But there were a lot of people online saying it was a bad idea.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 hours ago
There are lots of people online who think they are smarter than they are haha
Doing it this way is super simple and comes with many benefits and pretty much zero drawbacks. Another huge benefit is you can then sign up to backblaze personal computer backup plans which give you unlimited data backups for like $10 a month. I currently have my entire media library along with my entire Mac Mini hard drive (over 40TB in total) backed up in backblaze. To do that with a NAS would cost me thousands of dollars a year.
Davel23@fedia.io 8 hours ago
There are ways to back up a NAS with the Backblaze personal plans.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 7 hours ago
Sure, but none as easy as doing it the right way - and none that are guaranteed to not get your backblaze account banned.