New Mac Mini Server, two Hard drives, Can I install an older Mac OS on the second drive and switch start up disks to run PowerPc applications?

New Mac Mini Server, has two Hard drives, could I install an older Mac OS on the second drive and switch start up disks to run PowerPc applications?

I haven't purchased a Mac Mini at this time and I may not if I can't use it as a non server. I need to update my system I would be better off buying a new Mac with Snow Leopard the last app that will run Rosetta. The Mac Mini Server has a quad 2.0 processor and 4 GB RAM and two internal hard drives and should out perform my dual 1.25 G4. I can run PPC apps on my G4 but it is 8+ years old and seems to be getting noisy. I don't want to tie myself to another old machine. I want a machine that will work with Intel Apps I was hoping that the two hard drives would allow me to boot from the second with Snow Leopard and use Lion on the first drive to be able to keep up to date with all my other universal apps and Mac OS up grades. The application I use the most is my CanvasX app with drawing & vector effects, text & typography, sprite technology, painting, image editing, and multimedia tools are all in this one app but will not be updated to run Intel apps. I am frozen in time because my most valuable Application won't be updated and Apple has cut me off by not supporting PPC in Lion and onward; Apple used to backward support but I guess that they are no longer as user friendly and concerned with a happy user. I have always been a loyal Mac user and I will not migrate to Windows under any circumstance; I hate windows!
Thanks for your prompt response,
Dick Deaton

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Our Mac Mini Server (half a year old) with the newest system crashes hard now and then.
It could run for up to three weeks occasionally but now in the summer it could sometimes only run for minutes until it hangs hard with frozen mouse and clock.
I have found no other way than resetting by the power switch.
According to the technical specification it should handle up to 35°C environment. (Right now we have 28°C in the room here.)
It seemed to help a bit by installing smcFanControl and increase the fan speed.
It will crash even without any work being done on it. No special applications started. No network traffic.
If the exhaust temp is above about 32 to 34° the problems seem to worsening. Now it is 37°C despite full fan speed (5500 rpm) and it crashed after minutes.
Sometimes it will even hang during the boot process.
Have anybody else heard about such problems?

Hi MalcomKay,
I had to open a service ticket as Jiri suggested. The technician was pretty sure the crashes were caused by a defective Airport board and exchanged that (despite I doubted that and never used Airport for the server).
I came back home (2x2x120 km of travel) and started the Mac Mini Server up. I booted and run the AppleServerDiagnostics.app test from an USB. It lasted 15 minutes (until it was warmed up) and then crashed so hard it was not counted by the test. It just froze hard. It crashed when running the memory test. It always crashed before finish when running that test!
I returned the server to the Apple Service (another 480 km of travel). This time they exchanged the whole motherboard. They tested it running intense traffic and operations for one full week without a freeze. So it was a faulty mother board!
Now it has been running like a charm for months.
This is not the first temperature problem affected board Apple has delivered to me.
Good luck! /Johan
Tips: Prepare an USB stick you can boot from. It is so frustrating to have a computer without a dedicated DVD where you can boot from and run the hardware tests.

Instability in 2012 Mac Mini Server after Yosemite 10.1.1 Install

I bought a NEW 2012 Mac Mini server on clearance in the online Apple Store last month. I had a 256 SDD installed as startup drive along with Yosemite earlier this week. It crashes, freezes and randomly restarts. Not sure where to start with trying to figure this out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
It happens under various circumstances but here is the report on the latest that happened a few minutes ago. I had clicked on the Desktop Icon "Macintosh SSD", the boot drive. I got the spinning wheel and then a spontaneous restart.
I apologize if too much of the report is included here. Not sure where to stop.
Crash-panic Report. When I clicked on Macintosh SSD (Boot Drive) I got a spinning wheel followed by a system restart.
Anonymous UUID: C76AE31B-9D00-CD21-F920-DF88D8F8A0C9
Fri Jan 23 12:15:49 2015
*** Panic Report ***
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Backtrace (CPU 6), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff8018f13e50 : 0xffffff8004b3a811
0xffffff8018f13ed0 : 0xffffff8004fc4594
0xffffff8018f13f40 : 0xffffff8004fc425c
0xffffff8018f13f50 : 0xffffff800504dcb2
0xffffff8018f13fb0 : 0xffffff8004c3ac46
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Glad that you got it solved, John. That model was only replaced at the end of last year, it is not that old and far better in terms of flexibility than the current models. Although the current models are growing away from SATA and towards PCI which, in its logical conclusion, will be faster ito access (read and write), speeds.
Linc's advice was 100% spot-on.
Have fun with your 'new' Mini
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How many hard drives can i install in my mac pro

How do I know what size hard drives I can install? I currently have 4 x 2TB drives installed and am looking to go bigger. 4 x 4TB would be ideal and if you have suggestions on which drives might give me best performance for HD video editing that would be nice too.
Also can I install more RAM?
ere is some information to help.
Mac Pro
Early 2008
Processor 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 16 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Graphics 2 x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (11D50b)
Model Name:          Mac Pro
Model Identifier:          MacPro3,1
Processor Name:          Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed:          2.8 GHz
Number of Processors:          2
Total Number of Cores:          8
L2 Cache (per Processor):          12 MB
Memory:          16 GB
Bus Speed:          1.6 GHz
Boot ROM Version:          MP31.006C.B05
SMC Version (system):          1.25f4
Serial Number (system):          G************
Hardware UUID:          47DF4954-C493-50B8-85F3-FC381FA75AD6

PCIe SSD controller
www.macperformanceguide.com
That would be $1600 for your 16TB
There are kits to put 2.5" drives (4) in lower optical drive bay. Some WD 10K VR 500GB and 1TB ($200 and $300, 200MB/sec)
32GB 8 x 4GB FBDIMM 800MHz
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How do I reformat the second hard drive in the Mac Mini Server (Late 2012)?

In Disk Utility, I don't see the second hard drive, I only see the SSD that I installed myself in the main boot drive. How do I gain access to reformat the second drive?

Did you reinstall the OS after you installed the SSD?
If so it would have created a Fusion drive that looks like one drive.
If you go to System Report, what shows under the SATA bus? You should see both the SSD and the HD if it is recognized to some degree.

Mac Mini Server Drive Configuration

When ordering a Mac Mini Server, under hard drive selections the fourth option down is Two 750GB 7200 drives and a 256GB SSD It lists it as 2x750GB + 256 SSD. This indicates to me that you are getting the server with three drives, Two SATA 750GB and one SSD 256GB. I was under the impression that the Mini would only hold two hard drives? I opened two different Chat sessions with Apple and also made a call to sales and they all assured me that this is correct. Can anyone offer any insight? I would like to make sure before I order.

Another discussion on same topic https://discussions.apple.com/message/16024311#16024311
Seems like the Mini Server has more space in it so it can hold the three drives.
But haven't myself seen one in real life so I can't compare.
Stefan

How can I create RAID 1 on Mac mini server just now from box.

I bought my Mac mini server two days ago and decided that 1Tb + 1Tb HDD are very good for RAID 1 (mirroring).
Thinking - doing ... Open Disk Utility, try to change and create RAID. Nothing. Try to reinstall OS X - recovery part are on disk all time.
Does anybody can help me to create what I want and how to do this with minimum energy. Thanks a lot.

Start from an Internet Recovery which boots you into it's own Recovery Partition. From there use Disk Utility to put your 2 drives into RAID 1. Reinstall OS X from the Internet Recovery once you have done that and install everything else as you need to.
Be aware that RAID volumes do not have their own Recovery Partition so you will need to either have an external drive with an RP to boot into else you will need to use Internet Recovery each time (which is around a 650MB download).

Mac mini server

I have a Mac mini server edition that I'm using just for media. I got the server because I want as much storage as possible. It is refurbished, and is running Snow Leopard server, I don't need it to be a server, if I purchase Lion, can I just "turn it into" a regular mac with two hard drives?

AWESOME, I just wanted the dual hard drives, and all the "server" stuff just gets in my way, seems like I can make it just exactly what I want! Thanks so much.

Use Thunderbolt cable to transfer files from a mac to a Mac Mini Server

I want to transfer a large document folder of files from a MacBook Pro (MBP) to a Mac Mini Server (MMS) using Thunderbolt-to-Thunderbolt cable. How?
Currently both the MBP and MMS are on the same Wireless-N network.
Obviously the Mac Mini Server cannot be booted in Target-Drive mode because there are other users using it as a server.
Both computers installed OS X Mavericks 10.9.1.

Update:
Thunderbolt Bridge is the ultimate solution (on OS X Mavericks 10.9.1). It gives amazing speed transferring files without downtime on the source and target computers (in my case the MacBook Pro and the Mac Mini Server). Up to 7 times faster in writing and 30 times faster in reading than Wireless N!
My Settings: Systems Preferences > Network > Set Service Order ... and drag the Thunderbolt Bridge as the top Service (and thus above Ethernet and Wi-Fi), click OK and Apply. I only set it on the source computer (MacBook Pro) but you may try to set both.
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Current configuration
late 2012 Mac mini server
osx 10.9.3
2.6ghz i7
16gb 1600mzh ddr3 corsair vengence ram
(2) 1Tb factory apple hard drives configured as raid1(mirrored)
Start time
(4gb) 0:52m
(16GB) 0:52m
Restart time
(4GB) 1:52m
(16gb) 2:14m
Shutdown time
(4gb) 0:24m
(16gb) 1:04m
Any clue as to why my restart and shutdown times are so slow with more ram? i thought ram did not affect this. Secondly does a raid1(mirrored) affect this? it also seems a bit slower to open apps and while on the web
my late 2011 mbp smokes this thing, but it is running an ssd so its understandably going to. what I dont understand is on internet browsing the MBP is still faster. thought webspeed had nothign to do with the hard drive. im a bit new to all this.
Any help would be appreciated

I have a new Mac Mini Server that i jsut purchased 2 weeks ago. It arrived a few days ago and i have already put ram in it and configured it as a raid 1. It seems slower now than before the ram and raid.
Current configuration
late 2012 Mac mini server
osx 10.9.3
2.6ghz i7
16gb 1600mzh ddr3 corsair vengence ram
(2) 1Tb factory apple hard drives configured as raid1(mirrored)
Start time
(4gb) 0:52m
(16GB) 0:52m
Restart time
(4GB) 1:52m
(16gb) 2:14m
Shutdown time
(4gb) 0:24m
(16gb) 1:04m
Any clue as to why my restart and shutdown times are so slow with more ram? i thought ram did not affect this. Secondly does a raid1(mirrored) affect this? it also seems a bit slower to open apps and while on the web
my late 2011 mbp smokes this thing, but it is running an ssd so its understandably going to. what I dont understand is on internet browsing the MBP is still faster. thought webspeed had nothign to do with the hard drive. im a bit new to all this.
Any help would be appreciated

Mac Mini - Server running Lion - Network related issues

I have a mac mini running Lion. I am having a few issues that did not exist prior to an upgrade. But for the life of me, I can't figure it out.
The problems I'm having are as follows:
1. screen sharing times out. It works, then stops after a while. If I go in and uncheck, then recheck remote management, it'll work again, but only for a while.
2. neither the air port or the hardwired ethernet will obtain an ip via DHCP. Works fine once I put in a static, but will never obtain a dynamic address.
3. Homesharing on Itunes will turn off after a while, same as the screen sharing does..
4. Time Capsule is no longer found by the Mac Mini. My macbook pro see it no problem. It also keeps the itunes homeshare and can get DHCP addresses fine, so I know it's not a router issue that is causing the issues on the mac mini.
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I also thought that Apple might bring their abilities to creating a great UI for essentially linux operating systems to a server os.
from initial views though it might have been easier (cheaper) to go to ubuntu and just their server version of linux. Anyway I will persist - I will read through the stuff you guys have linked me to - colinsolutions appears to have aimed me at some useful stuff. Looks like a bigger "project" than i imagined - but I havent looked at UNIX since 1986 so if I have to get into the command line it wont kill me I am sure.
thanks for the input - if anyone else can suggets good resources that would be appreciated.
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Mac Mini Server 10.6

Hi, I'm new in server.
I am a programmer
I would like to setup a web application/cloud computing.
So, Mac Mini Server 10.6 is my first consideration.
Does mac server support asp.net?

Not natively, no. I don't know of a way to install it either.
There's plenty of documentation online regarding what OS X server has here:
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/web-hosting.html
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features
David

Mac Mini Server setup with airport express

I have had issues trying to setting up mac mini server on my network. I wonder if my current hardware is the problem? At present I have a Thomson Router plugged into an airport express which broadcasts wifi for my house. I have been connecting to my wifi with my mac mini server. Despite running server assistant and setting up a DNS server in Mac Mini server no clients are able to connect to the DNS server (i.e. dig command works on server but not on clients). I found reference somewhere on the internet to the fact that the mac mini server must be plugged into the router via ethernet for it to be setup properly.
Could this be the cause of my problems? Is it true?

Just to clarify this is an airport express and not airport extreme therefore I am reliant on a wireless connection between my mac mini server and the airport express.
The model of the Airport device here is largely irrelevant.
Currently my Thomson router serves out an address of 192.168.1.67 to airport express router.
Do you have any control over the gateway router?
The airport express is configured to share out a single IP address
Double NAT (which is what you have here) will cause you problems. Get rid of one layer of NAT.
The airport express gives out addresses in range of 10.0.1.2-10.0.1.202 with 10.0.1.1 being the address for the airport express and 10.0,1.201 being assigned via DHCP to the mac mini server (using its MAC address to reserve the address)
Within the private blocks, the IP addressing organization is your decision.
The DNS server is set on the airport express to 10.0.1.201 (i.e. my server).
OK. (I usually pick smaller numbers for more important boxes, because I tend to type addresses for those boxes more than the addresses of the boxes over in DHCP-land. But again, this is your call.)
I guess I wondered if something funky was going on with server assistant during the setup. A post I read somewhere (I've lost the link) was someone in an identical situation who had issues and said that apple had stated that he need to be directly connected to the router by ethernet cable to get things working. I wondered if this is the issue. An airport express does not have a spare ethernet port to plug into so I wonder if I need to buy a wireless router with built-in ports i.e. airport extreme (expense+) or something similar.
I'd probably switch the box to access point, but that presumes you can get (more) control over the gateway router.
I can access by Thomson router but I able unable to change the DNS servers that it provides (set by my ISP) from the GUI. I'm sure you could probably do it from the commandline but I think this is beyond me. I did wonder if that is what is causing problems
Talk with the ISP. You'd prefer to have the device switched to a bridge, if that's feasible. If not, then you're going to have to work within the confines of the particular model.

How to install mac mini server

Having trouble installing mac mini server. Please help!
I plugged in power cord to batter back up protecter and ethernet line into the airport. What next?

Hello, where are you stuck exactly, does it power on? Is there a display?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4886
http://www.apple.com/support/osxserver/setupadministration/

How to set up my mac mini server to use two drives seamlessly?

I have a mid 2010 mac mini server, with OSX Lion installed. It has dual 500gb hard drives.
I've been moving all my important files to it, and I've always assumed that once I filled one disc, it would seamlessly transfer over to the other and continue backing up. This does not seem to be the case.
I'm at roughly 495gb of data, and when I try to move a 10gb file onto my server, it tells me that I don't have enough disc space to continue the operation.
What can I do to make use of both drives?
-Thanks

It sounds like what you're asking for is to have the two drives in a RAID 0, where the two 500 Gb drives look like a single 1 Tb drive. I'm not sure the exact procedure for installing RAID 0 on a mini's internal drives, but the process would involve backing up, reconfiguring for RAID (which destroys all data,) restoring data from the backup, and more risk than I would personally find acceptable. I'd expect to lose a full day with the backup and restore steps. I can guarantee, there will be pain.
Instead, I'd suggest looking at what's consuming the 500Gb, and seeing if there are particular folders that can be moved. For example, a shared folder is pretty easy. Copy it over. In file sharing setup, edit the share to point to the new location. Make sure remote users disconnect, and reconnect to the "new" share. When you're happy there is no data loss, delete the old location.
User's home directories can also move, but the process has a few more steps, and depends on how the accounts are built (local vs. OD)
If the majority of the data is in a single "your backup files" folder, shared or otherwise, then I would just set up a second folder on the second drive and write to it, leaving the first alone. If it is truly a backup, then you could make the first folder read-only at this point for extra protection. If you go the 2 folder route, keep in mind your boot drive is operating with 1% free space, I like my drives to have at least 15% free, and OS drives more like 25% (you'll find some range in recommended %-free, but most will agree 1% is too little) so move SOME stuff to the new folder, before closing the old.

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