The same night I did repairs on my Core 2 Duo Mac mini, nicknamed “Lion” I found out there was a bit of an issue with my other Mac mini, the Core Duo system I used as a basic file host and affectionately dubbed “Miniserv” for its role as a Mac mini “server.”
In this case, much like the incident back in the Spring which kept me awake one night, the recently installed hard drive in Miniserv went belly-up. This was a surplussed and self-refurbished hard drive pulled from a PlayStation 4 and, much like the one that failed in Lion, it simply began showing the errors it was originally pulled from the PlayStation for.
As it stands this morning I took some time to install a spare 500 gigabyte drive — not what I wanted to have in this unit but more than enough for what I do wish to use it for or may use it for in the near future. One annoyance is that one of the hard drive mounting screws got stripped and the best I could do to get it out of the hard drive was to practically mangle the plastic the screw goes through to lock down the hard drive, but the other screws are in securely and I don’t see it being too much of an issue in the long run — besides, I can always get another “core” for the unit and swap it out if I really wanted to.
I’ve got the system running with Snow Leopard again, but for now will just let things be. I wasn’t really using the machine anyway and the same server hosting the BBS also has all the same video files on it, so there isn’t really an issue there with access problems — far from it, I’ve got plenty of copies of those files. Miniserv was really more of an idea, inspired by Tom of itsmynaturalcolour and his projects more than anything I personally needed to use one for. It’s just fun, to me, to use these systems in these ways, but there’s always a catch.
Ah well. Eventually I’ll grab some SSD’s for these things and that will be that. Sure, I’ll lose out on storage space but with SSD’s they would at least be likely more able to serve whatever long-term role I put them in.
To end, why not share the classic Leopard / Snow Leopard introduction video?