This is a substantial benefit for our house with several iPhones, Macs and iPads floating around. Our Mac mini caches OS updates, recovery images, app updates, and iCloud files for all other Apple devices on the network. However, there are still a few benefits to using a Mac (for me):Ĭontent Caching Server.
I won't be in the market for new server hardware for a while, but when I am I will be seriously considering non-Mac alternatives. And the more things I run through something like Docker or VMware, the less it matters that the hardware and host OS are Mac.
It is sometimes difficult to justify the cost and hurdles. I realise i would lose ESXI, Win10 & likely Ubunto but can be ok with that.As someone who runs a headless Mac mini – I don't disagree. If so any issues, any performance problems, any tips?
My Question is, has anyone run an apple silicon machine with lots of containers running jobs like: Now the M1 SSD is ~ 3GB/s that could be quick enough as virtual memory for a 16GB (or even an 8GB) Mac Mini running my workloads in containers (when fully supported). Typically you need RAM to quickly feed the chip, it could have been fed from an HDD but RAM ensures the CPU is waiting less time to read its instructions and write its results. The reduction in power draw would be welcome and contribute to the cost of the system.įrom what i've read and seen the M1 turns things on its head in terms of usage of RAM & Disk which underpins the huge performance observed. The M1 would be a significant improvement in performance & its built in gpu would be a huge boost to Plex's capabilities. Power efficiency is a motivation for the TS440 replacement and i'd hope to offset its cost with Electric bill savings over the next 5 years. I'm looking to spend no more than ~£500 but have been eyeing a dl360 currently ~ £640.Ĭhecking the benchmarks of the cpu's i could choose i see most don't have onboard AV decoding and the CPU performance isn't a great deal better than the E3-1245 v3 i currently have (single thread is often worse and multi thread is less ~ 1.5 x improvement). That is running Freenas, PFSense, win 10, Ubuntu running docker with 13 containers (including plex). I'm looking at replacing my lenovo TS440 (32GB RAM, Raid card 4 x 2TB HDD 2 x SSD)
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