Macbook server

[tildesley]

morning

for the past few months I've been thinking about what to do with my old macbook 08, it has little resell value so no point doing that.

one option i thought was, use it as a wired server for everything, I currently use an ap extreme with a usb attached for this that has served me well but its a bit slow.

if i want to do this,
can i use the main hdd to do it? (i read about people connecting usb drives but i want to avoid that, i'm not concerned about file structure for now)
can i store media (i have xbmc) and a time machine backup?
do you advise getting osx server? (or whichever version works)

i know that i wouldn't have a backup of the hdd if anything went wrong, but can anyone else think of any other downsides?

cheers!

JT

 

[Weaselboy]

I don't see any reason that won't work and it sounds like a fun idea. You will need to add on OS X Server edition to use it as a Time Machine destination though.

 

[clukas]

If youre going to be running time machine backups I would suggest you consider using some king of raid setup in case your HD on your Macbook fails.