Fortunately the migration assistant only transferred the contents of the system disk, so it ended up a 2TB to 2TB SSD migration, which was reasonably fast. M1 Mac Mini plus peripherals Setting up the new machineĪs usual, Apple made that part easy - I used the migration assistant to move over to the Mac Mini from the Mac Pro. Hooking everything up lead to the expected but not desired amount of extra cabling, but it still sits nicely in the corner of my desk. And it’s a lot more compact than the box it replaces:Ī small difference in size, even before unpacking The only option this doesn’t have is the 10Gb networking which would’ve been very nice but I decided I could do without. First attempts at purchasing one at CostCo didn’t go anywhere as they only had the 8GB RAM/256GB SSD models in stock (seriously? Who these days sells a machine with a 256GB SSD?), but eventually I managed to bag an almost top of the line one (16GB/2TB SSD) on Apple’s refurbished site. I eventually settled on the M1 Mac Mini because I really liked the idea of having a completely silent computer. The used car money wasn’t going to happen, so Thunderbird cables it was. Newer ones would only be expandable if I either were to invest into a lot of Thunderbird 2/3 cables or spend nice used car money. One of the reasons I really liked this old Mac Pro was that it was expandable. Combine that with distinct signs of the machine getting geriatric and I decided that I was time for a replacement.
SERVER RAM FOR MAC PRO 2009 SOFTWARE
Plus some of the software that I’m using really would like to use macOS 10.15, which this Mac Pro doesn’t support unless I effectively turn it into a Hackintosh. Nevertheless, it was showing more and more signs of getting long in tooth.
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It’s been upgraded a lot during its life - now has the latest 6 core Xeon these machines support including the upgrade to 2010 firmware, USB 3.0 ports, PCIe SATA cards to get SATA-3 and a PCIe NVMe card, plus a Mac-flashed AMD RX580. I bought it used quite a while ago - around 2013 if I remember correctly - and it’s been serving as my main photo/video/general programming workhorse, although the latter tasks have been taken over mostly by a Linux machine housed in the infamous NZXT H1 case. I’ve been using a 2009 cheesegrater Mac Pro for quite a while now.
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