Tim BrayDec 1, 2022

Dear LazyMastodon: Hey, we have this ancient 2008 Mac Pro, used to be the Family Mainframe and homework machine for the kids. All It does now is feed music to a DAC and run a Plex server. But it's hot and eats watts and MacOS is so old it won't run browsers or anything useful.

I think I'm gong to replace it with a basic Mac mini and a couple TB of outboard disks. What's a good choice for those disks?

Show threadTim BrayDec 1, 2022
Hmm a little linux or windows box would be way cheaper. I have like 20K songs in M4A though…
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@timbray Check out the System76 Meerkat5, it's what I use as my media server. It's basically an Intel NUC rebranded but won't break the bank. I have the machine running Manjaro at present, with no issues.
Dec 1, 2022 at 5:24amWeb