Then as the library got bigger, it was getting hard to store the media on an external drive and also back up.
The rMBP should last a good few years and is definitely an improvement over the mini.įor storage space, I moved away from internal drives with the mini. Now I use a first gen rMBP (2012) that was retired when I got my touch bar MBP. The host mac has evolved from a G4 tower bought in the late 90s to a 2009 Mac mini. Initially just music, ripping all my CDs plus some vinyl. I have had a media server in several forms since iTunes first came into being.
