jfbusch wrote: > i've been storing my music files in apple lossless format on a mac mini > which is nearly maxed out in hard disk capacity and other hardware > aspects such it is hardly able to boot up and play music. time to change > things around. my thought is to upgrade my MacBook pro to one with a > larger hard disk and have just one computer instead of 2 to deal with > and store everything and run LMS from there. but then i thought maybe > there is a better solution that folks here could point me towards.
How old is your Mini? I have a late 2012 and only use the internal SSD for OS and apps. All audio is on one of these: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1062451-REG/oyen_digital_3r5_eb3_m_mobius_5_bay_raid_enclosure.html I've loaded it with 2-2TB drives and 3-3TB drives. I'm running it as JBOD (all drives are seen individually) on USB-3. Oe of the 2TB drives has all my music on it... well over 37,000 songs mostly FLAC as well as high resolution and 5.1 mixes. The 2nd 2TB drive is the backup of the original, using Retrospect as my backup software. All of the 3TB drives are used to backup all of my Macs within the house, again using Restrospect as my backup software option. With the cost of drives getting cheaper and cheaper, I'd certainly look at the option of upgrading your storage space... you're eventually going to have to do that, anyway. Mac MINI (late 2012) 2.8GHz i7 16GB RAM 250GB SSD internal 13TB External storage - Music & Data Eric Seaberg - San Diego -A.E.S., I.E.E.E., S.M.P.T.E., S.P.A.R.S.- [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Seaberg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7896 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106349 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
