4 computers already seem like a lot for - my 2014 2.8ghz Mini iTunes server is running Mojave, and it is OK. But I just couldn't think of a good reason to do that. My 2014 1.4ghz/4gb/500gb HD Mini is just sitting in the closet now that I replaced it with the 2014 2.8ghz Mini, and this looked so easy that I thought about upgrading it to a SSD. It only has the original Apple software, since I don't use that machine for anything else.
The 128gb internal SSD is more than adequate for my boot drive and is mostly empty. It's a much nicer machine, but frankly there's little advantage over the old base Mini for the way I use it. Replaced it with the 2014 2.8ghz/8gb Mini last summer when B&H Photo was blowing these out for $500. That Mini was painfully slow for interactive use, but for a server it was just fine. I guess a SSD would save energy compared to a mechanical HD though. That machine took awhile to boot from the 5400RPM internal HD, but who cares? It ran 24/7 without sleeping and probably only re-booted two or three times a year. With a couple terabytes of media, I didn't think it made sense to put that on a SSD and I suspect the only difference would have been less latency. That machine came very close to saturating my gigabit ethernet LAN. All my media was on an external USB 3.0 hard disk that clocked around 170MB/sec. But I used a plain vanilla base 1.4ghz/4gb/500gb HD Mini as an iTunes and file server for three years and it was just fine. Not sure exactly how you use your server or what kind of network you have. Rather, it's the combination of the 5400rpm drive and the 4gb of RAM that's "slowing things down". My guess is that there's nothing wrong with the software installation on the HDD itself. Rather than Mojave, I would use Low Sierra (10.12) as my "OS of choice" on a 2014 Mini.īut if you want a "quick, easy, $0 way" to get things running with the new SSD, use CarbonCop圜loner (free to download and use for 30 days) to clone the contents of the HDD to the new SSD. Get an external USB3 enclosure for the existing HDD, it can still be useful as an external drive (for backups, etc.) This will accelerate page-ins and page-outs.
you can alleviate this (to some extent) by booting and running from an SSD. It's always going to limit the computer, because the OS is probably "forcing page-ins and page-outs" (VM disk swapping) to the slow HDD.īut. The 4gb of RAM is soldered in and is NOT upgradeable. Apple deliberately sold folks a grossly-underpowered version of the Mini (sigh). Well, you'd better start "believing it", because that's the reality with the Mini that you have. "Maybe I'm just being optimistic, but I am hesitant to believe that supported hardware would run poorly enough to make me question if something was wrong."
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