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Introduction: So I fired up my Mac Mini and started investigating external hard drives and connectors, for the external hard drive to the Mac Mini. The plan is to attach a new SSD drive, 2 Terabyte size

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Introduction I’ve thought about doing this for a long time, and the time has finally come to officially launch the project. My plan is simple: share what I intend to do, build it out, and then follow up

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