Most reliable Mac ever?

[ignatius345]

I have a 2011 Mac Mini that's been running for about 7 years now. It's running on a DIY Fusion Drive I made by putting an SSD inside and doing some careful Terminal mojo I read about to "fuse" the two into a CoreStorage volume. I used it for graphic design and even some video editing, and it kept up pretty nicely. I only moved on because it had USB 2.0 and that was turning into a bottleneck. So then I gave it to my wife who runs it in a small office. It's stuck on High Sierra (not supported under Mojave), but otherwise it's still chugging along quite nicely.
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I have a 2006 Mac Pro that has been running 24/7 since the day it was unboxed. It has only had two boot drive replacements and one third party RAM stick died a few years in which I replaced under warranty.

Loaded with the X1900 card and Apple Raid card and 16GB of RAM.

Other than keeping it in a temperature controlled and low dust environment, on a UPS and scheduled cleanings of the insides and fans it's been absolutely rock solid machine.

13 years of constant powered on duty with no failures other than what I mentioned. I think that is pretty amazing.

That is impressive. What are you using it for, some kind of server?

 

[timish]

I have a 2011 Mac Mini that's been running for about 7 years now. It's running on a DIY Fusion Drive I made by putting an SSD inside and doing some careful Terminal mojo I read about to "fuse" the two into a CoreStorage volume. I used it for graphic design and even some video editing, and it kept up pretty nicely. I only moved on because it had USB 2.0 and that was turning into a bottleneck. So then I gave it to my wife who runs it in a small office. It's stuck on High Sierra (not supported under Mojave), but otherwise it's still chugging along quite nicely.
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That is impressive. What are you using it for, some kind of server?

Yes, mail, website (car forum), ical, contacts among other things. It's been rock solid reliable.

 

[maflynn]

My 2012 rMBP is the most reliable and imo its the pinnacle of design, form and function. Following that form took over for function, as witnessed by the 2016 design.