The machine is purring along beautifully. Up to 32x the capacity of the original drive.
#MAC MINI SERVER 2011 FOR MAC#
It worked! Total time for the hardware upgrade through to working macOS install was about 5.5 hours. Mac mini Server (2011) OWC Solid State Drives For Mac mini Server (2011) 32 x. The 2012 Server is essentially the same as the top-end consumer model, but with OS X Server installed and two hard drives instead of one. dual-core CPUs in regular Minis), and OS X Server installed. My question is when I'm ready to shut down the Mini what should the procedure be I'm sure it's an easy method just one that is not making itself known t. The 2011 Mac mini Server was a normal Mac mini with two hard drives, a quad-core i7 CPU (vs. You could also use Thunderbolt but I see no benefit over Firewire 800 and two possible detriments, the first being high cost and the second being the possibility of having to share it with a monitor.
#MAC MINI SERVER 2011 PLUS#
I deleted and recreated the fusion drive, then did the High Sierra install using the ⌥⌘R at boot method. I'm running the Mini headless and have Audirvana Plus automatically load on boot with iTunes integration so I can control my music via an iPad. So put your external drives on the Mac Mini’s Firewire 800 bus, which is latent anyway if your Mac Mini is a dedicated music server. The High Sierra USB installer failed ( ). I tried the fusion drive using the instruction from. Everything still fit fine, however I had to refold the 4TB disk's cable to get it to reseat in its connector. The 4TB disk is taller than the original drives so it is "free floating" in the second drive mounting. Geekbench 5 scores are calibrated against a baseline score of 1000 (which is the score of an Intel Core i3. using screwdrivers to pull the board out, since the latter sounded like a really dangerous thing to do and wasnt working for me. The data on this chart is gathered from user-submitted Geekbench 5 results from the Geekbench Browser. 2011 Mac Mini Server: Mainboard extracted Popping this thing out of the aluminum shell for the first time was the hardest part of the whole disassembly/upgrade process. Quick update: I installed a 4TB Seagate Baracuda 2.5" spinning disk ( ) and a 500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD ( ) in the Mac mini server replacing the two original 500GB disks. Benchmark results for the Mac mini (Mid 2011) with an Intel Core i5-2415M processor can be found below.
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