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Just picked up two 2013 Mac Pro (Trashcan) any thoughts on what to do with them?
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Echoing that power concern... if it's just for home lab file server use there are more efficient choices. I've been running a Samba file server (Ubuntu 22.04) on an old Lenovo M93p machine with good results - at somewhere around a 10th of the power consumed by that Mac Pro. Seems like a those machines would be good for animation work.
Good point, it was too tempting to consider. Running a m1 or m2 mini seems like a better idea, but the allure of that much hardware for the price was too much to pass up