Need a little bit of advice on equipment, please.
I’ve been processing in PI on my M3 MBA and it works great. I just bought an M4 Mac Mini (so small!) and it will start life in my observatory to remote into the Eagles on my scopes. Later it will move to the house for processing in PI.
This next part is above my head so apologies in advance if these are really stupid questions.
1) Does a router stop malware from getting into my Mac Mini? Right now I use cellular (tether from ipad or iphone) for the little bit of Internet I need. If so, suggestions on a router with enough speed but not over spending for such a small usage situation. Wi-Fi will only be to update some apps and maybe down the road remote into the observatory. OK to plug into router, not connect by wifi, so wifi speed is not an issue.
2) I have a gaming keyboard, but of course it’s not Apple and does not have the command or Apple logo buttons. Can I map the command and Apple logo keys to a regular keyboard, or do I need to get an Apple keyboard? Or is this not an issue?
3) The Mini has only 512G storage, and I always back up to external Samsung 2TB T7 SSD‘s. But in this case I will be using the external SSD’s as the Astro storage, not actually in the MM. Transfer speed is fast enough for now. So is there a way to attach two of these Samsung SSD‘s and configure them in a RAID 1 to mirror each other, not mirror the Mac Mini? On my 2TB MBA I just use Time Machine to back up everything to external SSD’s but I’m looking at almost a terabyte of data, well over the MM storage available. This is only a temporary solution as I trade in my Macs about every year or two for a refurbed newest, maxed out model.
Many thanks