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Hey everyone so I'm a new member and even though its 4 am I had a weird question pop into my head while I was doing homework. Is there any way that I can use my old Mac that I have in storage which is either a Power Mac G5 or Mac Pro from 2008 into a media server for my house? Im sorry if this is not supposed to go here and thank everyone for reading and responding. 

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Welcome to the Forums! Knowing if the machine is a G5 or a Mac Pro would really help out, as they're completely different beasts. A Mac Pro would be better as it is Intel based, but it shouldn't be impossible on a G5, just difficult. 

Main System: Phobos

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

Secondary System: York

Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

Older File Server: Yet to be named

Intel Pentium 4 HT (1C/2T), Intel D865GBF, 3GB DDR 400MHz, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB (HIS), 80GB WD Caviar, 320GB Hitachi Deskstar, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2

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Just now, itachikurosaki121 said:

Found out it is a  Mac Pro - MA356LL/A

you need to quote people so they can know

 

51 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Welcome to the Forums! Knowing if the machine is a G5 or a Mac Pro would really help out, as they're completely different beasts. A Mac Pro would be better as it is Intel based, but it shouldn't be impossible on a G5, just difficult. 

 

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1 minute ago, itachikurosaki121 said:

Found out it is a  Mac Pro - MA356LL/A

Ok, that's good. You can use that for a lot more than a server, you know, but oh well. Now I see that using USB for boot on Mac Pros is difficult, so I'd put in a PATA hard disk in the CD-ROM area if you can and install FreeNAS to that. 

Main System: Phobos

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

Secondary System: York

Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

Older File Server: Yet to be named

Intel Pentium 4 HT (1C/2T), Intel D865GBF, 3GB DDR 400MHz, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB (HIS), 80GB WD Caviar, 320GB Hitachi Deskstar, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2

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5 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Ok, that's good. You can use that for a lot more than a server, you know, but oh well. Now I see that using USB for boot on Mac Pros is difficult, so I'd put in a PATA hard disk in the CD-ROM area if you can and install FreeNAS to that. 

ok I think i may have a PATA lying around...would there be any videos or detailed tutorials you could point me to?....and I actually got this from a yard sell 2 years ago and it has just been in storage  after I formatted it and reinstalled OS on it...what else could I do with this rig?

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2 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Ok, that's good. You can use that for a lot more than a server, you know, but oh well. Now I see that using USB for boot on Mac Pros is difficult, so I'd put in a PATA hard disk in the CD-ROM area if you can and install FreeNAS to that. 

freeNAS is an option, but as it's for media, the OP could also use win 7/10, and use spotify, as you can chose to play media on the PC in question though that, and win 7 and 10 are probably easy enough for the OP to use for other things as well, if the OP ever choose to do anything else as well, they may not though. There is also several guides on how to install windows onto a mac as well, making that easier. The FreeNAS solution does have the benefit of having the fact that OP can use it as a storage server, no matter how small the storage it, but at the same time it's a new OS the OP will need to learn

The owner of "too many" computers, called

The Lord of all Toasters (1920X 1080ti 32GB)

The Toasted Controller (i5 4670, R9 380, 24GB)

The Semi Portable Toastie machine (i7 3612QM (was an i3) intel HD 4000 16GB)'

Bread and Butter Pudding (i7 7700HQ, 1050ti, 16GB)

Pinoutbutter Sandwhich (raspberry pi 3 B)

The Portable Slice of Bread (N270, HAHAHA, 2GB)

Muffinator (C2D E6600, Geforce 8400, 6GB, 8X2TB HDD)

Toastbuster (WIP, should be cool)

loaf and let dough (A printer that doesn't print black ink)

The Cheese Toastie (C2D (of some sort), GTX 760, 3GB, win XP gaming machine)

The Toaster (C2D, intel HD, 4GB, 2X1TB NAS)

Matter of Loaf and death (some old shitty AMD laptop)

windybread (4X E5470, intel HD, 32GB ECC) (use coming soon, maybe)

And more, several more

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Just now, itachikurosaki121 said:

ok I think i may have a PATA lying around...would there be any videos or detailed tutorials you could point me to?....and I actually got this from a yard sell 2 years ago and it has just been in storage  after I formatted it and reinstalled OS on it...what else could I do with this rig?

I'd just use it with MacOS (I don't know what the latest supported version for that machine is).

Main System: Phobos

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

Secondary System: York

Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

Older File Server: Yet to be named

Intel Pentium 4 HT (1C/2T), Intel D865GBF, 3GB DDR 400MHz, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB (HIS), 80GB WD Caviar, 320GB Hitachi Deskstar, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2

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14 hours ago, grimreeper132 said:

freeNAS is an option, but as it's for media, the OP could also use win 7/10, and use spotify, as you can chose to play media on the PC in question though that, and win 7 and 10 are probably easy enough for the OP to use for other things as well, if the OP ever choose to do anything else as well, they may not though. There is also several guides on how to install windows onto a mac as well, making that easier. The FreeNAS solution does have the benefit of having the fact that OP can use it as a storage server, no matter how small the storage it, but at the same time it's a new OS the OP will need to learn

do you know of any video guides or online step by step tutorials?

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On 3/29/2017 at 4:18 AM, itachikurosaki121 said:

do you know of any video guides or online step by step tutorials?

Not off by heart but I can find one. 

 

guide

https://www.howtogeek.com/186907/how-to-install-windows-on-a-mac-with-boot-camp/

 

http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac/how-run-windows-on-mac-vmware-boot-camp-virtualbox-3497251/

 

video (not watched it though)

 

The owner of "too many" computers, called

The Lord of all Toasters (1920X 1080ti 32GB)

The Toasted Controller (i5 4670, R9 380, 24GB)

The Semi Portable Toastie machine (i7 3612QM (was an i3) intel HD 4000 16GB)'

Bread and Butter Pudding (i7 7700HQ, 1050ti, 16GB)

Pinoutbutter Sandwhich (raspberry pi 3 B)

The Portable Slice of Bread (N270, HAHAHA, 2GB)

Muffinator (C2D E6600, Geforce 8400, 6GB, 8X2TB HDD)

Toastbuster (WIP, should be cool)

loaf and let dough (A printer that doesn't print black ink)

The Cheese Toastie (C2D (of some sort), GTX 760, 3GB, win XP gaming machine)

The Toaster (C2D, intel HD, 4GB, 2X1TB NAS)

Matter of Loaf and death (some old shitty AMD laptop)

windybread (4X E5470, intel HD, 32GB ECC) (use coming soon, maybe)

And more, several more

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