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I’m looking to replace a 2013 Mac Mini running Proxmox. Just curious if anyone has one of these or anyone heard of any negatives about them? Watched a bunch of videos and outside of a lack of 10G Ethernet, it seems to be well received!

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[–] robalees 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for the heads up...

  • I would go with no RAM and no SSD, install something I buy myself
  • Noticed that and it was brought up in a video, is it critical for a home server to have hot swappable drives?
  • I'm sure the Mac Mini is probably using over 15W right now, but I don't know for certain. Any good ways to test outside of buying some hardware?

Most of the videos I've seen online are using Proxmox which is my goal. Just trying to decide if $400 before tax without any memory or storage is a good deal or if I should just build a box.

[–] just_another_person 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Critical...technically no. Shutting down your NAS, putting in a replacement, and waiting for the disk array to come back online is trade-off.

Nothing wrong with building a box. You probably won't be able to build something in this form factor and features though.