I am incorporating a new Mac Mini 2018 into my VSL-heavy workstation with two other much older Macs.
Could some tech-savvy folks (Dietz, Ben, etc.) quickly run down what components of VSL are most taxing to drives and CPU? I think it's MIR Pro, and perhaps some of the Vienna Suite plug-ins. I have numerous licenses, and doubles (but not triples) of some authorizations. So an idea of what to prioritize in the fastest, newest Mac vs. what can be off-loaded into the slower, older Macs would be instructive. The DAW is Logic, on Catalina.
All samples will be streamed off SSD's, no matter the computer, running on an Ethernet network or resident in the host. The Mac Mini is upgraded to the 10GB Ethernet, but of course, the older computers are standard 1 GB.
The Mac Mini 2018 has Thunderbolt 3, the older Mac Mini has original Thunderbolt, and the eldest computer, an early 2008 cheese grater has no Thunderbolt -- only USB 2, Firewire 400 and 800.
These two older computers have been great, but the needs of Synchron pushed them beyond their CPU capabilities -- especially vel x-fading several mixer channels as found in Synchron Strings. The Room Mix setting squeaked past, but not multiple, simultaneous stereo channels.
Perhaps your advice can spare me some trial and error.