I’ll keep this little introduction brief for now and just give you a bit of back story about this little fella. This is Gandor, my early 2009 Mac Mini. He was bought a week after the early 2009 Mac Mini refresh from Apple directly in March 2009 and came with stock everything. On his first night at home, I’d opened him up and taken out the pathetic 80GB hard drive he’d shipped with & replaced it with a whopping (at the time!) 500GB hard drive. Gandor ran 24/7 for a full 2 years as my home media server. He handled all my downloads and streamed media to my TV via my PS3 seamlessly! Since building ANBU, poor Gandor’s been retired, rather sadly sitting gathering dust as I could never find anything to truly put him to good use. As one of my first real projects of 2013, Project Gandor will hopefully give him a successful, new lease of life. Watch this space! 
Sort of! The short of it: at the moment I’ve not had the time to sort out what I’d wanted to properly and I may actually be going with another solution as it’ll let me involve Windows PCs as well as my Macs. Though I sympathise with not wanting to see the little fella go to waste, so I’m planning a post with a few suggested uses for an older Mac Mini. Thanks for stopping by TL, I hope you’ll stop in again for the post you’ve helpfully spawned.