Apple M1 Mac Mini for Running Blue Iris

doody

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Jul 22, 2017
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Anybody tried running their cam server on Apple's new hardware?
 
Anybody tried running their cam server on Apple's new hardware?
Why would you want to? Crazy Overpriced and no room for a 3.5 drive. Not to mention not running it in a native windows environment.
 
Why would you want to? Crazy Overpriced and no room for a 3.5 drive. Not to mention not running it in a native windows environment.
What's another $1000 on a thunderbolt storage rack?? Ha totally agree with you though.....just curious on the power efficiency to performance. I run BI on a i7-9700k (originally built for another purpose) and it annoys me when I hook a kill-a-watt up to it and start doing the math
 
What's another $1000 on a thunderbolt storage rack?? Ha totally agree with you though.....just curious on the power efficiency to performance. I run BI on a i7-9700k (originally built for another purpose) and it annoys me when I hook a kill-a-watt up to it and start doing the math
There is nothing as reliable as local storage in the pc.
How much power is the pc using? If there is a discrete card in there remove it.
You started with a high performance processor that is less efficient than its non k counterpart.
Even so there is no way you could make your money back with any power savings, it would take you many many years.
You can just buy a 300 dollar i5-8500 elitedesk if you really want though it still doesnt make financial sense.
You could lower your power consumption by using the substream function to significantly reduce cpu consumption .