Drivedx m13/24/2023 ![]() Just coming back from the Apple Store - what a ride. Thanks in advance for any help, highly appreciated! Would be some other thing if I was able to replace it myself, but built in my iMac, it's a different thing. I would really hate to have my HDD crashed only some weeks after AppleCare expires, especially in this case with "announcement". status failures read out by DriveDx (and probably other third-party apps, too) - or won't they accept to replace the drive as long as their own diagnostic program (which I guess isn't more detailled at the Genius bar) gives a red alert or I already experience "physical" HDD problems? Any tips for a good argumentation here? status and using "First Aid" on Disc Utility, I don't get any errors/warnings (yet).Īs my AppleCare is about to expire soon: Will Apple replace my hard drive based on the Advanced S.M.A.R.T. However when using the Apple hardware test (booting with "D" key pressed), looking up About This Mac – System Report - SATA/SATA Express - S.M.A.R.T. Two days ago, I got a DriveDx warning that the 3.0TB HDD part of my fusion drive is dying ("Advanced S.M.A.R.T. I am counting on the DisplayPort on these enclosures to run one of the two 4K monitors I am intending on using.Maybe somebody can help me with this: AppleCare on my almost three-year old iMac with Fusion drive ends in about a month, at the end of October. What remains to be seen is if these will work well with the M1 Macs, but I have no reason to believe that they won't. They have been great and I like the fact that they can supply power to TB3 laptops, have an extra TB3 port (for daisy chaining) and display port on the back. I got these on a strange blowout deal from Provantage, so they were not so expensive when I got them. I believe Akitio was bought by OWC and they are selling the Quad and Quad Mini now. Have not had one disconnect or crash the whole time, and my machines only down time is during reboots for updates. The Quad Mini houses 4 SSDs (SATA), and I have been using one of them for a boot drive since I have owned this setup (same boot drive for the Mac Pro and then the Mac Mini). I have had them connected to my 2013 Mac Pro via Thunderbolt 2 and currently have them connected to my 2018 Mac Mini with Thunderbolt 3. I have two Akitio Thunder3 Quads and one Akitio Quad Mini. I've been using it for at least a couple of years now. Ultimately, though, I don't want to have a poor experience due to making the wrong choice. I am also hesitant about putting any more money than necessary into this generation Mini since there seems to be other outstanding issues currently (display, bluetooth, etc) which may or may not get fixed. I would, on the other hand, prefer to just purchase one locally this week, while also saving the $200 upgrade on the additional 8GB RAM to put towards the next version of the Mini that I most likely would upgrade to. TBH, if the 16GB machine was available locally, like the 8GB Mac Minis are, I would be more tempted to go that route. Every YouTube video I have come across that is by an actual developer or computer science student adamantly states that the 16GB M1 is an absolute requirement. Not trying to beat this to death, but I have run across some here who have made reference to doing development on the 8GB M1 Macs, without really getting into details, but who have alluded to the 8GB machine being a great experience. ![]() I would love to hear from anyone who has actual hands on experience with the 8GB Mac Mini, developing in various IDEs, and multitasking on dual 4K displays - where other apps are actually running and not just minimized or in the background (thus being a great target for memory compression as opposed to actual utilized RAM). I have so many Raspberry Pi machines, that I don't think I will need to run virtualization at all on this M1 Mac, as I always have a Pi hanging around that can be used for Linux testing. I am concerned, however, about fluidity and responsiveness when using various IDEs with fairly large projects.īesides for development tasks, I am a pretty heavy user, and typically spec machines for considerably more RAM than 8 or 16 GB, mostly due to running virtualized environments. I'm planning on probably selling it when the next Mini gets released, so I am not really concerned about long term use. I'm specifically looking at the Mac Mini, and I am trying to decide between 8GB or 16GB. I'm not interested in compilation benchmarks, as I am more concerned about responsiveness in the more heavy weight IDEs (JetBrains) during actual coding and usage. I have also watched all of the YouTube videos that I could find. I have read through ALL of the discussion here on MR about the 8GB vs 16GB debates.
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