Put up 2010 Mac Mini, what upgrades now?

[sgiera]

I just picked up a 2010 mac mini, 2.4 GHz, with 2 gigs of ram.

I am going to use this mac mini to run all of my media for the whole house with my apple tv's.

First: I want to upgrade ram to 8 gigs. Is that enough or should I go 16 gigs?

Second: Main hard drive. Should I get an SSD or hybrid if so, which one and how big?

Third: Second hard drive. Should I get a non SSD to house the music and movies, if so, which one should I get and how big? The largest one I could find is a 2tb 2.5 sata hard drive.

Fourth: I have a mediasonic probox which houses all of my media which is around 14 tbs of movies. Should I use the FireWire 800 port instead of the usb port which is 2, not USB 3.

Last: What operating systems should I use?

Anything else that I'm missing or need?

Thank you,




Steven

 

[dyt1983]

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[sgiera]

dyt1983,
Thank you for your replay.

My music and tv shows on there for the wife and kids is around 600 gigs along with some movies I drop in so that is why I'm looking for the second hard drive so I don't have to keep the mediasonic probox on all of the time.

thank you

 

[dyt1983]

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[Joelburman]

I had a 2010 (8gb of RAM) and a Kingston SSD. It ran Mavericks without any problems.