#Mac mini mid 2010 hdd replacement mac#
The biggest limitation of the Mac mini server tends to be storage. Podcast Producer work, Mobile Access Server, even e-mail, the Mac mini server is going to be able to handle those needs rather well for up to around 200 or so users per computer. Really, if you’re talking about any one service, such as Wikis, Chat, Calendaring, internal Websites, light (They confirmed it enough that I’m planning on getting a couple of Mac mini servers to be my next Open Directory replicas.) The Mac mini server is a great fit for this, and my conversations with Apple representatives confirmed this. Storage needs for such servers are minimal, (even a large Open Directory entry is still going to only run about 1MB in size), so you don’t need a lot of storage space. You also tend to build redundancy into Open Directory setups via having separate Master and Replica servers anyway. LDAP & Kerberos lookups are typically not going to stress a server too much. While a directory server gets a lot of use, it’s not terribly high-CPU needs. However, the question is, what is a server with little redundancy in its design useful for? Well, if you think about redundancy in terms of the entire box and not components in the box, the answer to that question is “rather a lot.” The first thing that springs to my mind is as an Open Directory server. But as an emergency backup or to reinstall the OS on the Mac mini server, an SD card will work rather nicely. Apple was clear that you don’t want to use an SD card as the normal boot device on these servers-they’re not designed for that.
#Mac mini mid 2010 hdd replacement install#
One handy feature of the Mac mini server: since it supports large-capacity SD cards, you can install an OS on one and boot from it. Apple says both the optical drive and ethernet adapter for the Air are supported by the Mac mini server, although you’re obviously not going to get the same speed from a USB ethernet adapter as you are from gigabit ethernet. If you simply must have dual ethernet ports, you can again, borrow from the MacBook Air, and use theĪpple USB Ethernet Adapter ($29). NetBoot, that’s no longer as necessary as it once was. If you must have an optical drive, you can get theĪpple MacBook Air SuperDrive ($99), although with technology like Those things aren’t as off-putting as they may seem. There’s no optical drive, no redundant power supplies, and no extra ethernet ports. What you don’t get are some things considered requirements for a server. What you do get is a small form factor that ships with a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 4GB of RAM, (upgradeable to 8GB), dual 500GB 7200-rpm hard drives, one gigabit ethernet port, a FireWire 800 port, HDMI out, Mini DisplayPort, four USB 2.0 ports, an SD card slot with SDXC card support, and a nVidia GeForce 320M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM.
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