In general: Always use EITHER AFP OR SMB to copy data over from a Mac to a Linux box and stay with this protocol and filesharing daemon (Samba or Netatalk) forever from then on. Only if your USB disk enclosure is USB3 and the Mac Mini is from 2012 or younger it could be theoretically faster to directly attach the disk but since you would need FUSE to access any reasonable Linux filesystem it will be a lot slower (using HFS+ on Linux would be even more weird) That's weird since the only reason to buy such a M2U could be the 'native SATA' that allows at least for some ok-ish sequential read performance.Īnyway: if your USB disk enclosure is USB2 how should there be any performance difference if you copy over network or directly (USB2 will be the bottleneck, you copy with 35 MB/s on average with large files, if there are tons of small files it will take much longer regardless which connection you use). Once I have the data sorted, can I copy across the plex database (from mac to linux) or will i need to recreate the library on the M2U?
Option 2 would be my choice but I think that i need to have the USB drive formatted as ext4 to work on linux/OMV and this is not going to be mountable on my mac.Īny thoughts on how to achieve this with min effort? transfer over network (ethernet) from Mac to M2U (this will take some time i guess)Ģ. So now I need to transfer 1.5TB of data to a USB drive attached to the M2U from my Mac.
I have OMV3 and pexmediaserver running and tested on the M2U - works quite well - can transcode and stream high quality 1080p avi. I'm setting up a separate plex server on a Banana Pi M2U for a friend (i know that using a M2U is a bad mistake - but it's a freebie for a mate and better than using it as a paperweight). I also use a RPi/OMV as file server to store some of media but 90% is on my Mac.
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