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.

  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
    7·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t tried. The vast majority of my streaming is in the same network and direct play at 1080p. The rest is remote when I’m at work at 480p because I have to use data instead of WiFi.

    I’ve heard that the M1 Mac Minis can transcode at 4k but I didn’t want to shell out the cash for it.

      • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
        2·
        1 year ago

        That’s disappointing. I wonder if the M2 is more capable. Granted at that price point there’s little reason to go Mac instead of Linux or even Windows.