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Just picked up two 2013 Mac Pro (Trashcan) any thoughts on what to do with them? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by winebaths@lemmy.world to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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Picked up a 12 core and an 8 core with 64gb ram, both with d700 GPUs for a steal (150 each). Was thinking of running the 12 core as a server and maybe another as a dedicated router running pfsense and connecting a thunderbolt raid array for local media and jellyfin? Havent done any home server/homelab stuff before so was wondering if there were any Mac server things worth running or if I should just format them to run Ubuntu or something.

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[–] 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

finding a server usecase that would justify the consumption is going to be a challenge, when most home server task can run on a pi