Im not knocking macs, my house hold is full of macs and my home media server is a mac mini with thunderbolt gtech raid drive for storage. Best home server os in 2020 for media lovers linux and. Server losung fur ein mac umfeld server hardware forum. Im trying to install ubuntu on an old mac mini from 2011, with an i7 processor and an amd graphics card.
Mac mini features the apple t2 security chip secondgeneration customengineered mac silicon designed by apple to make mac mini even more secure. There is great software raid support in linux these days. Well supported hardware raid controller ask ubuntu. One is a compact linuxbased mini pc which packs in a lot of power with 8th gen intel processors. Describes how to hook up a ibm netstation to your local network using a linux box as server. Currently, my favorite hardware raid configuration is rackmountable servers with lots of disk bays, an 8 or 16 port areca. Hello, we are looking into using mac minis as servers in windows environment. How to configure the mac for use as a linux terminal. Advantages of the apple mac mini as a media server. Hello all, i have an older mac mini that has two drives in it, i have a 750 gig seagate 7200 rpm in the upper drive slot, and a 500 gig hitachi 5400 rpm drive in the lower slot the stock one. Is it a good idea to install ubuntu server on mac mini.
Mac mini is the worlds most energyefficient desktop computer, and its the most affordable way to enjoy the new mac os x lion server and ilife. Many people wrongly view software raid as a less powerful, cheap solution. Single boot linux on an intel mac mini major hayden. Home environment consists of two windows pcs and 3 macs, though not all are used concurrently. When you boot up the machine for the first time, the operating system will be installed on one drive server hd and the other drive will be empty macintosh hd2. It all works fine i just dont think its enterprise grade, not even redundant psus. The following are four of the best nas solutions for linux that do the job well. Introduced in 2002, it was apples first designated server hardware design since the apple network server in 1996. It will help your company beat data threats on windows, linux and mac together and save a lot of time and resources.
How to configure a software raid in macos sierras disk. It is one of four desktop computers in the current macintosh lineup, serving as an alternative to the allinone imac, and sits below the performance range imac pro and mac pro the mac mini is apples only consumer desktop computer since 1998 to ship without a display, keyboard, or mouse. Ich wurde zollsoft auch fragen was jetzt mit dem linuxserver geplant ist. I own a mac mini 2011 server which i use as workstation. Currently mac os x lion and windows 7 professional are installed in parallel via boot camp. I have been toying around with the idea of doing a raid 0 striped setup because i want to get a little bit more speed out of. Any organization that values its money and time would clearly see why roping in stellar toolkit for data recovery is a great idea. I think the mac mini server version would suit this perfectly, as its a lot more powerful, intended to be a server, and is a lot smaller. While the mini wouldnt be good for heavy liftingdatabases, java application services, and so onfor things like web, wikis, blogs, emailgroupware, or even running mac os x 10. It can be coupled with up to 16 gigs of ram and is 4kready with an hdmi port available as well. Mint box is a fanless, miniature pc which is powered by one of the most popular linux based distributions, linux mint.
If i use the nongraphical install media, it installs fine but refuses to boot after. Unfortunately, due to the late release of the 2014 mac mini, the required pci id to recognize the drive could not be added to the stock image of esxi 6. The network services the linux server is now providing would either be replaced by the mac mini or by vms running on the mac mini vis vmware fusion. Mac mini 2018 als server welche konfigurationempfehlung.
Im not knocking mac s, my house hold is full of macs and my home media server is a mac mini with thunderbolt gtech raid drive for storage. Linux support of these sorts of devices is usually very good because theyre commonly used in enterprise situations on linux servers. If you need faster, highcapacity internal storage for your desktop computer or server, 2. Xserve is a line of rack unit computers designed by apple inc. As far as software raid5 goes on usb or fw devices on an imac, mini or non. Out of the box, the new mac mini server has mac os x lion, the ilife suite, and the mac os x lion server tools preinstalled on one of the two 500gb internal drives. Addonics makes some cheap mac compatible pcie raid controllers if you have a mac pro or a laptop with an express slot. Its also remarkably simple to install, set up, and manage. Native linux on a mac mini 2011 ross maloney february 26, 2012 abstract a method of creating a dual boot of os x lion and linux on a 2011 released apple mac mini 5. Amahi can do what a linux server distribution can do but with a much simpler and. I have an old mac mini that i would like to turn into an ubuntu server for home use and experimentation and eventually to act as a home backup or media server. This portable raid solution comes in black, white, gold, gray, and silver, and features a rugged enclosure thats designed to be taken on the road with you. With one of these on your network, all of your computers have easy access to a central backup solution via samba or nfs and an accessible folder.
Even more so, apple removed raid 1 from new disk manager accessible by command line, so i am wondering is mini still viable as a server with ssd. We recommend using internal ssds for both software and media library storage over an external nasraid drive array. This question is about what steps are needed for transforming an apple mac mini into an ubuntu server. I just have a mini sat around and want to use it as a media server box for when i get a macbook but i would like to have redundancy since i have the hard drives lying around. The legacy bios used to boot linux requires a monitor to be attached, but there are some workarounds. Add in 6mb of l3 cache, and youll find that mac mini with os x server is packed with power. Raid is an acronym for redundant array of independent disks, which is a storage method that combines multiple physical disk drives into one virtual drive. Expensive hardware raid solutions are not automatically superior, often containing chips less powerful than in a standard laptop. Boot camp does not install microsoft windows on raid volumes. Im referring to a mac mini server with two hds, currently not running as a server. Data recovery toolkit for mac, windows and linux hard drives. Can i use a mac mini as a web server and database server. Windows 7 windows vista xp home edition sp1, professional sp1 windows 2000 professional sp3 windows me windows 98se or later versions mac os x 10.
Running your business on linux no, you dont need windows. Wenn ihr mac mini mit os x server uber zwei interne festplatten verfugt, konnen sie wie nachfolgend beschrieben vorgehen, um ein. Unterstutzt meine linux intelamd cpu hardware virtualisierung. I still prefer having raid done by some hw component that operates independently of the os. I dont envision a need for all the space the second hdd is providing so i wonder if there is appreciable speed value in setting it up as a raid 0 configuration. Amahi home server is the most stable and simple home server os for people starting to build their very own home server. Mit dem mac mini server liefert apple ein gerat, dass alle server. These small devices are becoming all the rage, and smaller companies are offering linux powered mini desktops. All nonmagnetic stainless steel pems, screws, and hardware. If you intend to run the mac mini headless with linux, youre going to run into a problem. I have had no problem in the past upgrading this machine to the latest os x version until this one. The product is the result of a collaboration between the linux mint team and compulab. I am trying to cover all the issues i had with linux installation process and getting apple hardware t o run happily with linux few things before we start. Describes how to hook up a ncd thinstar to your local network using a linux box as server.
Today i bought a new mac mini running mac os x server to replace an aging homebuilt linux server that supports my home network. Download and install an app called etcher from etcher. The two internal hds constitute a raid0 mirror setup. Designed to work with macos and ios, macos server makes it easy to configure mac and ios devices. Windows on your mac does not recognize raid volumes, including volumes provided by a raid card. Nothing wrong with having extra backups of my media which is already on my main server. Im currently running a mini as a cheap kvm virtual host server because you can squeeze two into a single ru, theyre quiet, and use relatively little power. One caveat that i would like to highlight is for the recent 2014 mac mini 7,1 or newer models where the sata hdd is not automatically detected due to a change in the disk model made by apple. In the meantime, ordinary power macintosh g3 and g4 models were rebranded as macintosh server g3 and macintosh server g4 with some alterations to the hardware, such as.
I upgraded the os to yosemite and have not installed os x server it shipped with an older os x server build. Mac mini server as a server with linux q apple community. The mac mini serverits full name is the mac mini with snow leopard serverbrings together two separate developments. I have a weird problem that ive never seen any documentation about. Its a 1tb solid state drive, making it perfect for smaller projects, with transfer speeds of up to 770mbs. Enabling raid 1 on a mac mini server scotts weblog. However, as soon as i boot to the graphical install media, it freezes. The linux distribution installed was 64 bit ubuntu precise alpha 1 server, selected as a lean environment which could be subsequently built upon. The t2 security chip consolidates several controllers into one, and includes a secure enclave coprocessor that provides the foundation for encrypted storage and secure boot capabilities. I have a brand new mac mini, were going to be using it as a server. Amahi is built on the fedora linux distribution with a webbased interface and is regarded as the best free home server os next to freenas. Enabling raid 1 on a mac mini server scotts weblog the.
How to set up a raid in macos sierras disk utility. This reduces dependencies a great deal and takes load of the server. The combo enables you to add two ssds plus a usbc port to any mac or linux computer with. Cineraid crh458 hardware raid 0, 1, 10, 3 and raid 5, support 4 x 3. Well we use a mac mini server, have macbook airs, ipads and iphones for running and connecting to the company. Installing ubuntulinux mint on macmini is easy, but getting it to work the way you normally want a pc to run is a bit difficult meaning, run smoothly and making all peripherals work. I have never used linux before, but i would love to learn. The main reason one would build or purchase an nas device is to back up data. When the macos server software disappears mail, contacts calendar and webdav are essential to us we will definitely switch to a linux server. Mac mini with os x server will serve you well macworld. We havent brought all of the hardware yet is it worth buying the 2.
Best thunderbolt raid systems for imac pro of 2020 imore. Arztsoftware praxissoftware arztpraxis software fur mac. Freenas delivers an amazing amount of functionality. Pricing and hardware features are going to be your real delimiters here. If this is the configuration youre looking for, youre good to go right out of the box. Information about products not manufactured by apple, or independent websites not controlled or tested by apple, is provided without recommendation or endorsement. After i bought the mac mini and brought it home, i was dismayed to find that apple hadnt enabled raid 1 on the dual 500gb hard drives in the system. In this video i show off the disk speeds of a 2011 mac mini server packed with quad core i7 8gb of ram, and dual 500gb 7200 rpm drives in raid0 striped configuration.
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