MacMini 2010 - worth upgrading RAM for a music server?

[Giuanniello]

I have an old Mini mid 2010, I think the last one with an optical drive, I use it solely to stream lossless music to a DAC, no other service running onto it, stuck at High Sierra and only 4GB RAM, I was wondering if upgrading to 8GB, which is no big deal nowadays, adds something onto performance for the task and if possible to force an upgrades OS onto it.

THank you


Giovanni

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

If you only use it for music streaming, I guess it depends on how many concurrent streams you are having. Is it a problem with the current amount of RAM?

At least RAM for such an old machine is dirt cheap, so one might as well do it.

 

[Giuanniello]

If you only use it for music streaming, I guess it depends on how many concurrent streams you are having. Is it a problem with the current amount of RAM?

At least RAM for such an old machine is dirt cheap, so one might as well do it.

I use the Mini headless, I access a music streamer through an iOS app, all in all, besides disconnections off the network, it works fine for the purpose but being stuck with HighSierra I can't update the streaming software and that's why I thought of both upgrading to 8GB and to force, if possible, install of an updated version of MacOS

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

Well, then your answer is: If you need some features your streaming app has on newer Mac OS versions than High Sierra.