Afternoon all,
Currently have a WD My Book World II NAS sitting at home streaming media via Twonkymedia, downloading torrents etc... It's a bit flaky sometimes but a nightly reboot seems to have made it pretty stable, v slow on file transfers though - home network is gigabit ethernet.
The newish mac mini server from apple has got me interested. This thing could sit there running iTunes permanently (serving my apple TV / airport express music streamer) 24x7 and still run the likes of Twonky / Transmission and pretty much anything else I chose - and it's still pretty good on the power, certainly better than my iMac which I currently need for iTunes streaming to work.
The downside of course is that the Mac Mini server is £816 - bit of a con in my book although the server software itself isn't exactly cheap, even the vanilla OSX Mini is the wrong side of £500.
So I'd like to know if anyone has built a hackintosh style Mac Mini? I couldn't give a stuff about it not being a 'real' Mac as it'll sit in a cupboard and I've already paid my apple tax well and truly (iMac, 2xMBP, iPhone etc..)
If not I'd be willing to entertain the idea of a Linux box but I'm guessing iTunes streaming to an airport express requires iTunes itself which limits me to Windows (no thanks ideally, even though I quite like 7) or OSX.
Needs to do the following:
- Basic NAS functions
- Torrent downloads
- iTunes for music streaming and serving library to AppleTV
- Low power/noise
- Small footprint
- At least 2 HDD bays
- UPnP / DLNA media streaming via Twonky or something similar
- Cost significantly less than a real Mac Mini !
Also, what's the real advantage of running Mac OSX server on it vs std OSX? Automated backups? Special iTunes functions?
Thanks!
Adam
Currently have a WD My Book World II NAS sitting at home streaming media via Twonkymedia, downloading torrents etc... It's a bit flaky sometimes but a nightly reboot seems to have made it pretty stable, v slow on file transfers though - home network is gigabit ethernet.
The newish mac mini server from apple has got me interested. This thing could sit there running iTunes permanently (serving my apple TV / airport express music streamer) 24x7 and still run the likes of Twonky / Transmission and pretty much anything else I chose - and it's still pretty good on the power, certainly better than my iMac which I currently need for iTunes streaming to work.
The downside of course is that the Mac Mini server is £816 - bit of a con in my book although the server software itself isn't exactly cheap, even the vanilla OSX Mini is the wrong side of £500.
So I'd like to know if anyone has built a hackintosh style Mac Mini? I couldn't give a stuff about it not being a 'real' Mac as it'll sit in a cupboard and I've already paid my apple tax well and truly (iMac, 2xMBP, iPhone etc..)
If not I'd be willing to entertain the idea of a Linux box but I'm guessing iTunes streaming to an airport express requires iTunes itself which limits me to Windows (no thanks ideally, even though I quite like 7) or OSX.
Needs to do the following:
- Basic NAS functions
- Torrent downloads
- iTunes for music streaming and serving library to AppleTV
- Low power/noise
- Small footprint
- At least 2 HDD bays
- UPnP / DLNA media streaming via Twonky or something similar
- Cost significantly less than a real Mac Mini !
Also, what's the real advantage of running Mac OSX server on it vs std OSX? Automated backups? Special iTunes functions?
Thanks!
Adam
