Looking to buy a Mac Mini before Golden Gate

[rlivingston]

DoubleDisk: You mean DiskDoubler?

[rob]

Depends on the platform they used back then…

Disk compression

(Both were such products)

[pantulis]

It’s been so long that memory fails. Now I believe I remember at least in MS-DOS it was called DoubleSpace.

[tomalmy]

@webwalrus

I’m thinking that if I treat this purchase as a “pure server” Mac, and keep all non-essential files on the DAS, I could get by with the base M4 Mini. Basically the Mac would primarily be a place to put software that operates on the files stored on the DAS.

For many years I’ve run a Mac mini as a pure server. Currently I’m using an M1 mini with 8GB RAM and 1TB SSD with 25TB attached. It runs Plex, Resilio Sync (as a local cloud), Backblaze for the house, and some Hazel tasks. It never goes above 50% CPU and normally sits at 50% memory usage. It runs Sequoia.

So a Base M4 mini would actually be overkill!