my word of advice if you end up going with the server mini is to either read up on RAID before configuring the drives, or if you are familiar just consider your options. It sounds like you like the server because it has extra capacity but in reality you should probably mirror the two internal drives for data security. if you choose not to mirror the drives, make sure you have a good external backup system in place, as you now have 2x the chance of a drive failure internally.
the big black dot on the front.Does the server still have the IR sensor?
initially set up as 2 separate volumes. admin can use disk utility (or softraid) to set up striped or mirrored raid.What are the RAID options? RAID 0 & 1? Can the mini server also be configured to have two independant 500GB drives?
Well that's good you get all the options available. Software RAID hummm, I've not heard to many good things about that. I'm a little surprised that there isn't any kind of HW controller for that.
I really like the idea of a 7200rpm drive in the mini. Why wouldn't apple offer a 7200 RPM option as an upgrade? Boggles my mind!![]()
Well that's good you get all the options available. Software RAID hummm, I've not heard to many good things about that. I'm a little surprised that there isn't any kind of HW controller for that.
I really like the idea of a 7200rpm drive in the mini. Why wouldn't apple offer a 7200 RPM option as an upgrade? Boggles my mind!![]()
In the enterprise server world I work in the RAID controllers have backup batteries and 256-512MB cache on them for data integrity. I know the mini is far from an enterprise server, so I suppose software RAID1 is good enough.
I'm more miffed about having a 500GB upgrade to the base mini, but it only being a 5400RPM option. It's not like the thing is going to be running on battery like a MBP or MBA!
The cache on array controllers is really there in case of power failure, so that extra data can be written to disk when the server power is returned. The newer controllers are now using flash cache, so there is no battery.![]()
Does the server still have the IR sensor?
I talked to Apple today and they confirmed that the Mac Mini Server could be used with the Apple Remote.
Is there a way to install windows 7 on the mac mini server? I hear it does not have bootcamp, so how could I do it?
I dont want to use Parallels or any similar software. I want a partition with windows 7.