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I’ve been wanting to set up a couple of small home servers (something like some raspberry pis). They’ve been out of stock since forever and very hard to come ac

I’ve been wanting to set up a couple of small home servers (something like some raspberry pis). They’ve been out of stock since forever and very hard to come across. It’s been months since this project is paused. I’m considering just getting a Mac Mini and using that as a home server with everything in it.

sgjohnson 5y ago
I just got a Mac Mini for this exact use case. Let's be honest, Raspberry Pi is garbage. It's just insanely weak, I regret spending around €100 for mine (Raspberry Pi 4, with case). It's got 32-bit ARM chip, and USB 3 ports that you can't use (I plugged in 2 external HDDs into it, was running a SMB share for Time Machine and Media, they just kept dropping. Apparently something power delivery related, works with USB 2.0 speeds though.)