Big thanks folks.
The reason I'm stuck for space is that I have a 10" soho rack that's nearly full and only 4U almost free so if I put a NUC with its power supply in I'm stuck for drive space.
Thinking a bit about backups I can mount the drives elsewhere and back up the OS etc to that and copy the ripped files direct to another disk so no floor mounted drives needed :-)
The Linux vs Windows question came about trying to find if there were any server differences as I know the Macs are limited due to the ffmpeg fork and was concerned issues existed for Windows or Linux.
As for Debian vs Ubuntu - I'll research a bit more as I've avoided Ubuntu recently after a bad Pi experience (way too slow) and switched to Debian but to be fair - this is an Intel box so the speed is not an issue (and the latest Pi versions of Ubuntu are lots better). Given this box is going to be dedicated and headless then I may well dip my toes again.
Thank you all again :-)
Sorry to read that - I've been thinking about replacing the fan and thermal compound TBH but may pick up another as a hot (sorry) spare.
The reason I'm stuck for space is that I have a 10" soho rack that's nearly full and only 4U almost free so if I put a NUC with its power supply in I'm stuck for drive space.
Thinking a bit about backups I can mount the drives elsewhere and back up the OS etc to that and copy the ripped files direct to another disk so no floor mounted drives needed :-)
The Linux vs Windows question came about trying to find if there were any server differences as I know the Macs are limited due to the ffmpeg fork and was concerned issues existed for Windows or Linux.
As for Debian vs Ubuntu - I'll research a bit more as I've avoided Ubuntu recently after a bad Pi experience (way too slow) and switched to Debian but to be fair - this is an Intel box so the speed is not an issue (and the latest Pi versions of Ubuntu are lots better). Given this box is going to be dedicated and headless then I may well dip my toes again.
Thank you all again :-)
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Everybody already answered, but my 2012 Mac Mini died earlier this year and boy was that thing a trooper. It was a daily driver, a HTPC, a Jellyfin/micro-services server, a daily driver again, and then it decided to thermal kill itself repeatedly...
Sorry to read that - I've been thinking about replacing the fan and thermal compound TBH but may pick up another as a hot (sorry) spare.