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I replaced my terrible NAS with an the cheapest Mac
I replaced my terrible NAS with an the cheapest Mac mini
#replaced #terrible #NAS #cheapest #Mac
“A Better Computer”
Connect to SMB from Windows guide
Infuse for Mac
Jellyfin
Plex
Hazel
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Hazel is the absolute best! I love it!
What wallpaper are you using on the main mac?
I have been running a mini as my home server for over 10 years. I am on my third mini and I am up to 10 4 TB drives, 6 remain power off most of the time, they are used for very cold storage. For people with Macs in their house I think it is the ultimate server. Thanks for the video.
How do you control for the risk of someone outside hacking into the systems?
Could you show how to connect to your mac mini 1) from iPhone 2) from other network?
I may have missed it, but what model mini are you using?
Ok video, I've just got rid of my old synology NAS after 5 years for the same reasons you outlines. I do have some points to make: You say its an old mac mini but you don't say what OS – I tried to download infuse for my 2012 Catalina mac mini and it doesn't work with that OS. Also, I came here to find out how to make my TV see those shared external drives, so I could watch media from them, you didn't show us that either, it's no good sharing them so they're visible on another mac, that's file sharing not media sharing.
the old buy once cry once saying is true with computer stuff. Yes it's expensive but you won't have to purchase anything else and it just works. Synology is expensive I bought an 8 bay with 10 gig sfp+ and my new Mac Studio also has 10g and wow is it fast transferring large files. You won't be sorry. I use synology apps and downloaded emby from their store for free and use it like plex. TV and Movie streaming.
What is U2DL and how is it used?
This is not very safe
What is the oldest Mac Mini this would be viable in?
why not add the movies to Apple TV on that Mac and share it? saves you a third party app you may have to pay for…?
Bad idea
I have this setup as well with a 2014 Mac Mini and as I have a couple of other Mac’s with thunderbolt 2 I have connected these via TB2 to the Mac mini and also via ethernet. As I also put an NVME drive in-the Mac Mini I get great access speeds. Note be sure to put the Thunderbolt bridge as the first network connection on all Mac’s as otherwise it will default to ethernet or WIFI. You can daisy chain Thunderbolt but as the devices need to run to make these available to all Mac’s I set it up so that the mini is the TB hub using both TB ports and than daisy chain on the connected Mac’s as required.
Why 😂😂😂
I love this setup!
How did you get that "Matt's Mac Mini" to show up under locations? Is it because you logged into both your Macbook and Mac mini using same apple Id? I can't get my Mac mini to show up under Locations in my mac. How do I do that?
I don't see "Share Screen" showing up for me when I connect to my mac mini as smb server.
How do you connect to your mac mini?
Can you show how your settings for "Remote Management" look like?
Thanks in advance!
Hey, this is great. I am trying to the same. Do you have a tutorial on how to turn an old macbook pro into a NAS system?
I can’t figure it out with infusion or vlc on apple tv 🤔
My heartfelt thanks to you, Matt! I've just completed setting up my first NAS system and I'm so glad that my old 2015 Mac mini i5 8GB with 1TB SSD could be put to good use. I now have a Macbook Air M1, but I didn't want to part with my Mac mini as it's not worth much on the second-hand market. The sharing features, Infuse, and Apple TV 4K make it so easy to use, I can't believe I didn't think of it before. It's running 4K 2160p HDR WEB.DTS-HDMA.x265 perfectly, no lag, no glitches – it's incredibly smooth. I'm planning to experiment with more demanding files. Many thanks mate! 🫶
This is great. Exactly what I needed. Is there a way to access the data from outside the local network?
I'm just concerned about RAID set up in case the drive dies!?! Especially with my older mac mini, drive is more at risk of dying without warning…. maybe TWO mac mini's with auto back up potentially using carbon copy cloner or some such…