Mac mini hard drive replacement 2010 mac#

Apple says both the optical drive and ethernet adapter for the Air are supported by the Mac mini server, although youвЂ™re obviously not going to get the same speed from a USB ethernet adapter as you are from gigabit ethernet. If you simply must have dual ethernet ports, you can again, borrow from the MacBook Air, and use the Apple USB Ethernet Adapter ($29). If you must have an optical drive, you can get the Apple MacBook Air SuperDrive ($99), although with technology like NetBoot, thatвЂ™s no longer as necessary as it once was.

Those things arenвЂ™t as off-putting as they may seem. ThereвЂ™s no optical drive, no redundant power supplies, and no extra ethernet ports. What you donвЂ™t get are some things considered requirements for a server. ItвЂ™s not a Mac Pro, itвЂ™s not an Xserve, but itвЂ™s not useless, either. What you do get is a small form factor that ships with a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 4GB of RAM, (upgradeable to 8GB), dual 500GB 7200-rpm hard drives, one gigabit ethernet port, a FireWire 800 port, HDMI out, Mini DisplayPort, four USB 2.0 ports, an SD card slot with SDXC card support, and a nVidia GeForce 320M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM. It doesnвЂ™t require a rack, it doesnвЂ™t take up a lot of space, and doesnвЂ™t use a lot of power (around 10 watts at idle, according to Apple). However, in spite of all the things it doesnвЂ™t have, if you keep your expectations correct, the Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server is a highly useful box thatвЂ™s perfect as a utility server, or a do-it-all SOHO box.

Up until the current generation of mini, they still had AC power bricks! What kind of server has a brick? Heck, the server version of the Mac mini doesnвЂ™t even have an optical drive. They donвЂ™t have redundant power supplies or ethernet ports. As a longtime a fan of utility servers and вЂњthe right tool for the jobвЂќ, IвЂ™m still amused at how odd the idea of a Mac mini as a server can be.

Mac mini hard drive replacement 2010