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i lucked out i have a 10 port usb hub all filled and recognized, and a USBC Enclosure with two 10gb drives all recognized

that is very strange have you resolved

Yes I'm actually am replying on the mini right now. It attached to my Samsung 65" TV perfectly, I'm not sure what profile to use I chose P3 and it looks pretty nice. I have not set up the storage device yet that will be for after the holidays. The base model is faster than my 2011 I5 iMac. I...

what enclosure are you using ? on a Mac ?

yeah its looking like i'll go in a similar direction, are you using time machine to backup the spanned volume to the other spanned volume?

yes directly into the mini

Reviews have been good, I was looking for more direct connected device than a nas I can still return it tell me why ?

Well I have about 8tb of tv shows compressed to mp4 but I’m considering re ripping some of it to straight non compressed mkv’s

Yeah I’m pondering tuning the two 10tb drives in raid 1 so they mirror each other, still that wave 3 drives as single not backed up or mirrored. Not sure what I want to do

i'm a newbie to most of this i've been running a plex server for years but mostly as external drives into a mac, i have'nt really ever backed up, in all that time i think one drive went bad, i was never overtly concerned as its all data i have on disk. Now ripping does take time but i'm not sure...

Right well what if the are spanned I imagine the same

Ok pretty easy to do in the Mac, now what happens if on disk fails? Is there any benefit to me doing this vs just leaving them all separate if I’m going to just add them to Plex?

By spanned you mean each bay as an individual drive ?

I've ordered the Base Mac Mini from B&H Photo, no tax , which is nice. I'm going to use it on my Samsung KS-8000, as both a Plex Server and Player, I've also ordered a 5 Bay USB C storage bay, and from the black friday sale I've ordered two 10tb WD Easystor drives, I'll shuck them and add them...

well storage isn't that cheap, i just have about 5 eternal drives connected to my iMac i really set up some sort of fileserver or was i just never got around to it

yeah that would bump it to about a grand. I go back and forth on encoding i have used plex only and i don't encode, but if i want to put it in iTunes and limit the amount of transcoding needed to be done for my devices then i have to encode.

currently I’m running an 2011 I5 iMac with 12gb, I browse, and mainly use it for a Plex server. I do use it occasionally for encoding DVD’s and blu rays for Plex, the iMac is slowly giving up the ghost. I’m wondering how well a stock mini with the I3 would serve as a replacement ? I’d rather the...