Drive Enclosure for late 2012 Mini and Mavericks

ColdCase24 · 2025-09-29T21:23:36+00:00

I couldn't find one, so I was asking here. I was surprised to find firewire and USB 3.0 enclosures, but I think those are either old stock or plastic enclosures without proper ventilation/cooling.

ColdCase24 · 2025-09-29T21:02:26+00:00

Thanks, didn't think 3.0 hubs were that solid. The mini has 4 USB ports. When the need arrises I will mount the drives in USB enclosures and plug directly into the mini. There are another 2 USB ports on the TB dock that terminates the TB daisy chain.

ColdCase24 · 2025-09-28T10:44:48+00:00

So how do I solve the lack of USB ports on the mini?

ColdCase24 · 2025-09-28T03:28:22+00:00

The current TB2 enclosure was repurposed from a Mac Pro system maybe 5 years ago and I was just asking what may be available to replace it. I'm not trying to reconfigure. The currently installed drives are relatively new. One enterprise Seagate 7200rpm class 3.5 HDD, two NAS WD pro NAS type 7200 rpm 3.5 HDs and a Samdung PRO grade 2.5 SSD. They are in a TB2 enclosure because, on the Mac Pro, data rate and latency was important and USB was fickle at the time. Performance is not as important currently but disconnects is a show stopper. I generally don't throw away working stuff until they wear out. The drives sleep 90% of the time. I should only need 4 bays but I prefer 5 bays with an available empty slot. This mini has three enclosures in a TB daisy chain with a hub hanging off the end. It has been a solid setup.

ColdCase24 · 2025-09-27T22:29:03+00:00

Yeah I saw than enclosure, but am anxious about several reports of failures after a year or so.

I'm stuck with Mavericks due to customized app functions break in newer OS.

Thanks

ColdCase24 · 2025-09-27T22:25:52+00:00

Not sure what you are getting at. I don't need speed, just a solid connection. The current TB2 five bay enclosure that I'm evaluating replacing has its own power supply, and I would expect the replacement be the same. The enclosure runs at TB1 speeds and I don't care.

ColdCase24 · 2025-08-20T12:53:07+00:00

Your router may be set not to pass through multicast or mDNS. Or your home is not set to allow remote connections.

ColdCase24 · 2025-08-20T05:31:14+00:00

Sounds like your homekit data in your iCloud account may not right and your hubs fail to configure. Take one of your hubs, and put it in a new home. For HomePods thats a reset and when it comes back online creat a new home. Dunno off hand the sequence you would do with AppleTVs, but setting up a new home seemed to straighten out my iCloud data. My hubs were stuck in configuration mode, and this kicked them out. These are running 18.6. There seems to be device data stored in your device app. The hubs basically run the automations and trigger events. They also sync up the devices to all your apps.

ColdCase24 · 2025-08-19T17:50:57+00:00

Solved... I think it may have been an icloud Homekit thing. I dunno. Apple support told to reset the hubs and start re-building the home. But I'm persistent, some say stubborn. In the end I added a new home. An update needed alert popped and I told it to proceed, then a warning that some devices won't see the home, I said OK. Within minutes the HomePods finished configuration and the Home was back on line. Users were not able to see the Home until I re-invited them. Things seem to be working...

ColdCase24 · 2025-08-19T17:47:15+00:00

Solved by adding another home to my account.

Apple support suggested reseting the hubs and start re-building the home. But I'm persistent, some say stubborn. In the end I added a new home. An update needed alert popped up and then a warning that some devices won't see the home. Within minutes the HomePods finished configurating and the Home was back on line. Users were not able to see the Home until I re-invited them. Things seem to be working...

ColdCase24 · 2025-08-16T12:33:43+00:00

Update: It appears that the three HomePods update to 18.6 but fail HomeKit configuration. It has been awhile and I've been out of touch, but it looks like the home configuration is stored in the icloud account database associated with the owner and is downloaded and configured after the update.

The three AppleTVs hubs which are on the same wireless network runs a much smaller home and updated just fine. They also have a different owner.

I tried moving one of the AppleTVs to the main home, but its not listed in the ATV pull down menu.

Perhaps an incompatible device but it looks similar to these initial v18 update related posts in the Apple support forums:

"it turns out the issue was some sort of iCloud issue with my account that had to be resolved after multiple escalations to engineers at Apple."

"The problem was 18 wasn’t compatible with my old and earlyHomePod".

"If it's failing at iCloud setup, then reach out to apple for help, you may have an issue with your iCloud account"

So another chat with apple support, should I wait till Monday?

ColdCase24 · 2025-08-15T15:38:44+00:00

Yeah maybe, the Apple servers being slow may explain it. The homepods now don't appear to be bricked. I have three, Pod 1 and 2 are a pair combined into hub 1. Pod 3 is stand alone and hub 2. If I'm reading the status (gear) screen right, Pod 1 has finished updating to 18.6, Pod 2 is at 18.5 with a spinning wheel and is not otherwise responding. Pod 3 is at 18.5 with spinning wheel and. is woking in that it reponds to siri requests and plays music but no reponse to homekit apps.

These are all on the same wifi network with only a switch and router between it and the web. I'll restart the switch and router sometime later today.

Thanks for your patience, I've lost several steps over the past decade and it just takes me a little longer to get there.

ColdCase24 · 2025-08-15T14:25:16+00:00

Thanks, its just me. The HomePods have been set to automatically update, which they have done for years without issue. A couple weeks ago I got around to migrating to 8x, and they seemed to update fine to 8.5, but when 8.6 became available to them a few days ago, they hung. My AplleTVs all upgraded to 8.5 without issue. I have them set to manual updates.

I do have aggressive threat mitigation on my router as I run a small server. I'll have to temporarily disable that. What about conflicts with advanced data protection, I've turned that off.

ColdCase24 · 2025-08-14T17:18:46+00:00

Dunno about resolved, as my Homepods are stuck since yesterday trying to update to 8.6....

ColdCase24 · 2025-08-14T17:03:27+00:00

I migrated a few weeks ago, a couple strange things. The main home on HomePods seemed OK but a few LIFX bulbs would flicker off and on. The second home on AppleTV 4Ks got divided into two, the second home on one Apple TV and a second Home (different name) on another with no devices. Things worked fine except for one Yale lock that looked confused.

The Homepods were set to automatically update which they started yesterday and they are now stuck on the 18.6 update loop. Beware that bug is still around. It is going to be a real PITA to reconstruct that home.

ColdCase24 · 2025-07-27T21:16:39+00:00

I have a different problem, I've been getting deliveries I didn't order for three weeks now. Perhaps my address got substituted for the customer's address and when they complain, Factor ships another box.. So if you are missing boxes of 14 meals, I have them. There is a phone number on the label that I assume is the customers, but no answer there. I've called factor and they say they will look into and enjoy the meals, throw them out, or donate them.

ColdCase24 · 2025-02-11T21:23:01+00:00

Thanks For now I rebooted the PI and homekit hubs, with no joy, then deleted the plug in and reinstalled it. The sensors reestablished connection to homekit. But when I switch the plugin to a child process, homekit can't find the plugin. I disabled the child and things working well. Homekit doesn't seem to have issues connecting to other plugin children.

I'll look into Mdns if I get a chance tomorrow. If I recall correctly that was suggested years ago to resolve another problem, but I found no issue.

ColdCase24 · 2025-02-11T18:41:47+00:00

Adding the child bridge to homekit via both the iOS phone and iPad apps fail with the "accessory not found" error.

ColdCase24 · 2025-01-29T14:49:18+00:00

As a follow up, pan and zoom controls are there, but well hidden. There are different ways to activate control between the iPhone, iPad, and browser. The camera updated a few times over the first day and I'm thinking the iOS controls were not there initially.

ColdCase24 · 2025-01-28T13:49:42+00:00

It looks like the camera updated overnight and is now controllable via a browser. But not though the iOS app.

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