Leaving Mac mini turned on

Planning to buy a Mac mini to receive faxes and read them while on the go with remote access. This would mean I would not turn it off for long periods of time, like 2 weeks or so. Would this be a problem to it?
Danny

There have been many, many threads here relating to clicking noises (and worse) from mini hard drives - and while some clearly have been related to failing drives, most are simply reports of noises that are commonplace with drives of this size and type, and which have been commonplace on Mac minis since their first release two years ago. Indeed, my original, 2 year old, mini has been running 24/7 all that time, making a range of clicking and clonking sounds from the drive, and it is showing no signs of problems.
While it's not really possible to tell from your description if your drive fits the same pattern of sounds, if it does it is just the drive briefly parking the head between read/write actions - most laptop drives are designed to do this as a precautionary measure. I would not be greatly concerned at the noise, but given the system is new, you might want to take it back to the supplier (or an Apple store if you have one within reasonable distance) and have it checked out.

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From the menu bar, select
 ▹ System Preferences... ▹ Security & Privacy
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1. Reset the SMC, as per > Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
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Then boot back into normal mode and if it is still turnning itself off...?
Run the Hardware test, as per > Using Apple Hardware Test

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Intermittent problems are by far the most difficult to identify and correct. You can run a test one time and it passes with flying colors and the next time it fails. Apple Hardware Test and Disk Utility are definitely the not the most rigerous tests available and are not nearly as thorough as the tests available to the Genius Desk personel.

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It has never happened before last couple updates.
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tristamson wrote:
I guess it has something to do with electric current.
surely you have a UPS installed, right ?
I guess it started after I updated to 10.6.4 (but not so sure...).
hmm, unless you have a mid 2010 mini, try this:
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You can boot the problem Mac to Recovery like you did before. Attached the external HD and then install Yosemite to the external HD. That will erase the external HD and the external HD will have to be formatted in Mac format.
The Recovery link in my previous reply covered that.
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I would also backup those importent file to another device/media too.
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Tape it over? I'm sure you'll find some cute little sticker to put over it. Is the LED annoying you?
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Hi brody. I turned off printer and screen sharing.
I have a new problem related to sleep:
I put my Mac Mini to sleep using the menu and selecting "sleep".
Mac goes to sleep and you can see the LED on the front of the Mac
getting brighter and dimmer (as it always does when sleeping, no problem).
Problem was when I woke up 7 hours later the LED light was off, so
I thought there was another power failure but there wasn't because
my cable decoder box will switch from displaying the time to displaying
channel 1 if there's a power outage and power returns. However, it
still displayed the time so that meant there was no outage.
So, I figured it was not a power outage although we sometimes
get very brief (split-second) "brownouts" or blackouts.. they happen
so fast so I can't rule out that happening.
I tried pressing keys on the keyboard and clicking the middle button
of my Logitech mouse but no go.
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on the back of the Mac.
Mac woke up with the login screen covered in a white haze with
|||||||||||||||||||||| at the bottom (like a progress bar).
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1. Why did the LED turn off after being asleep for several hours?
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with a | | | | | | | | progress bar at the bottom of the screen for 15 seconds or so?
I ran an Apple Hardware Test by booting with the "D" key held down and it passed.
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is wrong with it. I'd hate to be without my Mac even for a day. heh. :-)
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I reply to my self
I have a mac mini late 2009 with Mountain Lion
I solved this problem disabling the second monitor from the dvi conection and conected it again with the vga plug in. My main monitor also conected by a hdmi plug to my mac mini
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vooid,
You are not speaking directly to Apple on these forums, Apple does not read or participate in them in any fashion. We are all end-user volunteers just like you . Den.thed has offered valid advice, if you have AppleCare (highly recommended) you can call AppleCare for telephone support. If you don't know that number you can begin locating it by clicking http://support.apple.com/kb/he57. If you don't have AppleCare you are still eligible as long as your machine is 1 year old (purchase date) or less. If you go 366 days, you cannot get AppleCare. In addition to the telephone support it extends the warranty from 1 to 3 years.
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How long can i keep mac mini (mid 2011) running?

hi, am new to the mac world, and previously i used to keed my windows pc for hours and days witout switching it off (for downloads and so), and i wanted to know, if it is safe to leave mac mini running for long times, like 2 3 or more days without switching it off?
sometimes when i touch the top of the mini i feel its hot, but am not sure if this is normal or not?
i have the 800$ version, with the 4g and 2.5cpu
it is in an open area with nothing surronding it
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There are several listed here:
http://www.macupdate.com/find/mac/temperature
iStat is often recommended, though it's not free. MiStat, from the same developer, is pretty cheap:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36368/mistat
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hello
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i'm also keen to limit the amount of keyboard/mouse usage, does anyone know of any remote control systems available?
i currently have eyehome and want to use this kind of set-up to play music, view pictures and video (front row style?)
look forward to hearing thoughts/ideas/stories.

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