I've managed to pick up an old Mac Mini to use as a home server - booyah!

Currently I have an ancient headless pc running Pi Desktop x86 software with a hard drive attached for media sharing.

I always wanted to do more with this box (sticking a lightweight Ubuntu install and using it to run some test C# MVC Apps) but never had anything to host our media. Plus, the media wasn't managed; it was just a shared folder essentially.

Now with the old Mac Mini (the old white one with a tonne of i/o; late 2009 I believe) the plan is to replace the hard drive with a chunky ssd, add some more ram and stick the Mac Server App on it, alongside Plex and potentially iTunes.

Can't wait to finally have a proper little home server running :)