Mine is my dad’s old 2014 Mac mini with a bunch of USB hard drives hanging out of it.
Ideal? Probably not.
But it mostly works pretty well. All I’ve bought specifically for it are the NVME adapter so I could drop my wife’s old 256gb M.2 drive in, a 1tb SATA SSD for the internal bay, and a 3.5" enclosure for a 2tb HDD I had knocking about.
Mine is my dad’s old 2014 Mac mini with a bunch of USB hard drives hanging out of it.
Ideal? Probably not.
But it mostly works pretty well. All I’ve bought specifically for it are the NVME adapter so I could drop my wife’s old 256gb M.2 drive in, a 1tb SATA SSD for the internal bay, and a 3.5" enclosure for a 2tb HDD I had knocking about.
And she’s rock solid. Mostly.