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Got an Apple Mac Mini as a server? Congrats, you're smart enough to have the most affordable macOS system on the market. But it's missing a few things, and that's where the NewerTech miniStack MAX is a rockstar. It adds a DVD burner (or you can upgrade to a Blu-Ray burner), more disk space, tons more connection options, and lots of other features, all in a form factor that's a perfect complement for the Mac Mini size and shape.
Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ talks about the miniStack MAX and how it's helped him configure the perfect small office network server.
Learn more: http://www.newertech.com/
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hi Dave Taylor here again and I want to
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talk about the Mac Mini this is a sort
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of under some device that Apple sells
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and it's basically if you took a really
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nice Macintosh and took out the screen
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and took out the keyboard and the mouse
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and everything what would you have left
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a box and that box would have all of the
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core functionality of a really pretty
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sophisticated computer - all the
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peripherals and that's exactly what the
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Mac Mini is and starting at around five
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hundred bucks you can get one and they
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work great as servers and that's what I
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have I've had this in my office for
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probably a decade different Mac minis
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and it works really really well I use it
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as a file and print server an archival
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server it manages all of the sort of
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data flow in the office network and not
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only that it also works as a plex media
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server so for our entertainment system
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that's where actually all the files live
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now the thing is Apple maybe took a
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couple of shortcuts when they were
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developing it so while the mini is a
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really nice elegant little device there
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are some things that maybe it needs and
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that's where this comes in this is the
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newer tech mini stack Macs and what this
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does is number one it duplicates the
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form factor of the Mac Mini in fact when
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you put this on top it's exactly the
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same size and it's the same finish that
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brushed aluminum so it's very
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elegant-looking but what this offers is
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basically everything Apple forgot so
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starting on the front this particular
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model has a cd/dvd reader-writer so it's
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really super easy to burn DVDs notice on
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the side here is an SD card reader how
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handy is that and they even thought
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through to put it on the front so you
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don't have to fumble in the back but
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it's when you get to the back and I'll
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give you a close-up here too but when
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you get to the back this is where it
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really rocks you can see it has four USB
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connections three of which are powered
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you through USB three it has two
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firewire 800 connections and that's
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actually how I'm connecting to the drive
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on the Mac Mini so superfast
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interactivity and it also has one eSATA
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connection if you have a device that can
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handle that
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and of course it has DC in power in more
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interestingly it also has something
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called the what is this this is the
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Kensington security slot so if you're
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running a server lab or you're at a
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school you can actually lock these down
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and no one's gonna walk away with one
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which I would understand if they would
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because it's really nice now that's all
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the stuff on the outside the most
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important thing on this the thing that
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really got me to get one is that it has
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a three terabyte drive so that's a lot
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of extra storage that's a lot of extra
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space that frankly I need on my computer
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if I'm using this as a big file server I
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need lots of space and that all comes
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with this and it's super handy now it
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turns out that the mini stack has three
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primary configurations and it basically
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really kind of wrote revolves around the
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drive that they put in so this one is
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the cd/dvd reader-writer they also have
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one that has blu-ray and CD and DVD is a
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reader writer and then they have another
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one that has two it has one that's a
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blu-ray reader and one that's a DVD
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reader/writer so depending on what you
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want you can have just DVD and of course
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they all do CDs so you can do just DVD
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reader/writer or you can do a DVD
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reader/writer plus blu-ray reader or you
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can have one that actually is a blu-ray
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burner or writer too so those are the
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three primary options lots of other
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configurations how big your disc is all
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these other things this particular
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configuration that I have that is three
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terabytes and DVD and obviously all the
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peripherals on the back and everything
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or ports in the back and such this runs
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two hundred and sixty seven ninety-nine
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so really not bad at all and what that
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means is this plus a Mac Mini so around
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eight hundred dollars I can get an
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extremely sophisticated workstation
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server and of course I can plug a
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computer screen in and I can plug
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keyboards in fact that's what I've done
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is I have a second monitor that actually
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plugs into my Mac Mini and it's actually
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a Mac so there's nothing mini about it
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it's a very fast very powerful computer
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now turns out that this is actually
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compatible with Windows and Linux
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machines too so while it might be
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designed to be a
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perfect match for the Mac Mini that
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doesn't mean you can only use it with
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the Mac Mini it's just a nice handy
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well-designed peripheral that is going
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to be an easy addition certainly from
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the price tag but functionality to an
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easy addition to any computer setup
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that's going to give you tons of
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capabilities so not much else I can tell
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you about this I will tell you that at
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its most basic this starts at a hundred
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and sixty dollars and it can go up to
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five hundred dollars depending on if you
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want the full monty configuration and oh
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clicked so this is the newer technic
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Macs 3 terabyte with CD / DVD
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reader/writer
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and you can learn more about it at newer
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tech comm and this as configured is 260
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$7.99 this is Dave Taylor and I really
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need to get this back on my server
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because I really need to boot my server
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back up I had to turn it off to be able
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to pull this out that's how much I use
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this so Dave Taylor and I'll catch you
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in my next video
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