I retired my trusty 2012 Mac mini a year ago. It just got unruly. The M2 mini is fantastic and I paired it with a Synology 920+. I don’t think the RAM is critical unless you are moving lots of data all of the time from the local machine. I think SSD/NVME cache is where it’s at.

I don’t recall that at all. Crazy.

But what about the water? I need to see a connection to a water line with a float to turn in when low! Stat!