#MAC MINI SERVER SETUP MAC OS X#

I would argue that Time Machine would be a better use of the second volume than a RAID 1 configuration, as Time Machine provides versioned backups and you don't incur the write performance penalty RAID 1 requires every time data is saved to the disk. As an aside, this shipping configuration is ideal for using the second disk as a Time Machine drive. If this is the configuration you're looking for, you're good to go right out of the box.

#MAC MINI SERVER SETUP MAC OS X#

Out of the box, the new Mac mini Server has Mac OS X Lion, the iLife suite, and the Mac OS X Lion Server tools pre-installed on one of the two 500GB internal drives the other disk is formatted as a separate, second drive. I just purchased a new Mac mini Server today (the base configuration 2011 Quad Core i7 with 4GB RAM and 2x 500GB 7200RPM magnetic hard disks) and wanted to share what I've learned about setting up RAID on the system.ДЇirst, as you may have heard, the Mac mini Server does not include any installation/reinstallation media (I was hoping for a USB reinstall key, but it seems that the new systems don't include these or optical discs last year's Mac mini Server included handy reinstall DVDs even though the system didn't have an optical drive).

Mac mini server setup