Because I have not done any meaningful updates to this site since 2013, it was time for a major update. I am relaunching brycv.com with a whole new design and more features. In the process of migration, some posts have not been migrated. I will backfill the archive with posts that are still relevant as needed but some of my older posts that were really news items are no longer relevant and so were not migrated.
How to create a bootable installer for macOS →
In the process of upgrading a Mac mini to be a server, I installed two SSDs to be configured as a RAID 1. One of the caveats to this approach is that a recovery partition is not supported when using a RAID as your boot volume. I had previously come across these instructions from Apple but looked them back up in order to install OS X. Even with my extremely fast fiber connection, it is still much slower to install from the recovery partition than it is from a local USB drive.
Update: This link was originally shared in 2014 but the guide has been updated by Apple for the latest versions of macOS as well so the title of this post has been updated to reflect that change.