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In which case go with RAID 5 if it is supported.
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If considering RAID would go with RAID 1 unless you expect your movie collection to demand all 4 drives, DVD's are tiny averaging only 6GB, Blu-ray's average around 25GB, HDD's are huge and cheap these days unless you have older smaller ones spare. With the exception of JBOD RAID systems at least basic ones often require the HDD's to be the same size. * RAID 5 combines all the drives into one pool with a single drive acting as fault tolerance, so even if one drive breaks you can repair the pool without loosing all your data. * RAID 1 makes a mirror of one drive, so you could with 4 drives made up of 1 drive with 3 mirrors or 2 drives with 1 mirror each. * RAID 0 combines all drives into one large pool for extra performance. * JBOD just a bunch of disk combines all drives into one large pool with no extras. * Standalone just use each disk separately. Yes you can use the USB RAID storage device, it may have various modes built into it.
You can also use Plex app on phone to act as remote for other plex clients, if you want a physical remote flirc is best option to use any type. The old ATV's are not much use, you can purchase a jailbreak but it's not worth it as it's too old, sell them and buy ATV gen 4 or gen 5 (4K) for app store.Īs for the second Mac mini server you can use that as playback if you want, download a plex client for it if your version of OSX on server is still supported, Kodi can also connect to Plex servers too via it's own plugin.
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Honestly I would replace the old ATV's with the latest model that has app store, instead of using Plex client install InFuse on the new ATV which can connect to the Plex server, this has the added benefit of decoding all media on the ATV instead of making the server CPU transcode the media. So for example have Plex server running on the Mac now you can install Plex clients of your phone, some TV's have built in clients in their app stores. They can also transcode media in real time given enough CPU power. Plex and Emby are both media server & client systems, you can install the server on the Mac, add content to it's library and stream that to other clients that have their apps present. I’ve also got a couple of 2nd gen ATVs as well as loads of external hard discs.īest use case is get USB hub and plug USB HDD drives into it one of the Mac servers. So, is there a use for these on my AV setup and what would I be able to do with them.
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Mac mini "Core i7" 2.0 (Mid-2011/Server) Specs (Mid-2011, MC936LL/A, Macmini5,3, A1347, 2442): Īs you can see, they are quite old but they do have hdmi ports on the back? I would absolutely love to avoid having to use pc stuff as I know nothing about that world whatsoever so if my Mac stuff can be put to good use, that would be great. I remembered I had some old Mac mini’s gathering dust somewhere and it appears they are not Mac mini’s but Mac mini servers. Someone suggested using a Mac and setting it up as an Apple TV so I stayed looking at what kit I had lying around.
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I’m looking to get something similar for streaming and storage so trying to update my knowledge base on things like Kodi boxes, nvidia shield etc and find all very confusing. I used to have a Mac server that I ripped my dvds but that went to Mac heaven many years ago. I no longer have to worry about space since I can plan well ahead for that.I’m in the process of updating my 10 year old system and my thoughts have turned to content. Still, I have over 2TB of media reasonably secure and all Macs are backed up via TM. Cons are that the initial investment was high and that having my iTunes library on the Drobo means I can't do a time machine backup on that. Pros were that I could grow the storage space as drives got cheaper, recycle old drives, have a safety net if drives fail and also use as a Time Machine backup. Then as the library got bigger, it was getting hard to store the media on an external drive and also back up. The rMBP should last a good few years and is definitely an improvement over the mini.įor storage space, I moved away from internal drives with the mini. Now I use a first gen rMBP (2012) that was retired when I got my touch bar MBP. The host mac has evolved from a G4 tower bought in the late 90s to a 2009 Mac mini.
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Initially just music, ripping all my CDs plus some vinyl. I have had a media server in several forms since iTunes first came into being.
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