MacBook Pro 15"/17" (manufactured in 2011) - NVIDIA graphics card issue with high failure rate.MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 to Early 2008) - NVIDIA graphics card issue with high failure rate.MacBook Air - no high speed connectivity (FireWire 800, eSATA, Gigabit ethernet) plus too expensive.MacBook - no high speed connectivity (FireWire 800 or eSATA).iBook - not high enough spec/slow networking.PowerBook G3 - not high enough spec/slow networking.iMac - no internal expansion and very difficult to take apart plus high failure rate on some models.eMac - no internal expansion and very difficult to take apart plus high failure rate.Power Macintosh G5 - only two hard disk bays internally and notorious for high failure rate.Power Macintosh G3 - not enough internal expansion.We do not recommend any of the following computers: Plenty of RAM (for the version of OS X you are running and how much data you will serve and the number of clients on your network).USB v2 or v3 (preferably v3 - USB2 is possible but doesn't really cut it due to software/speed overheads).FireWire 400 or 800 (preferably 800 - 400 is possible but is quite slow).At least one of the following ports for external storage:.We recommend a dual SATA hard disk in RAID 1 (mirrored) configuration for capacity, speed and basic data safety but any storage volume will do including the boot disk if it is big enough. Large enough hard disk for data storage - preferably a hard disk running at 7200rpm or faster.If you do not have one of the above computers you can still use most Mac computers as a server as long as it has the following: Power Macintosh G4 (preferably Mirrored Door model).MacBook Pro (any model with FireWire 800 or Express 34 card slot).We recommend one of the following computers for use as a basic Mac server (the PowerMacintosh G4 or Mac Pro silver models are highly recommended due to their expandability and the ability to install most things internally reducing cable/box clutter): How to create a basic Apple Macintosh storage/backup/media server Creating A Basic Mac Storage/Backup/Media Server Creating A Basic Mac Storage/Backup/Media Server Article ID = 49Īrticle Title = Creating A Basic Mac Storage/Backup/Media Server
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