Three Uses For Your Old Mac! Content Cache, Network Server, & Time Machine

Have an old Mac, not sure what to do with it but you're not ready to recycle it yet? You're in the right place, in this video we'll cover three quick and easy uses for your old Mac.
Content Caching- helps to save bandwidth by caching Mac and IOS apps and updates on your home network. Really useful if you have multiple Apple devices.
Network File Server- Great way to use your old Mac as a single network location to store files to use between computers on your network.
Time Machine Backup- Back your current Mac up to your old Mac, excellent way to keep your files safe from a hardware failure.
0:00 Video Start
1:15 Setting up Content Cache, File Sharing & Time Machine
6:42 Caching in action
7:56 Mapping network share on Mac
8:20 Mapping network share on Windows
11:20 Setting up Time Machine
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[@danilotravassos]

Great video. Thanks! I don’t know why but I couldn’t connect the drive when I’m in windows…

[@SomeDudeUK]

Just discovered content caching as I totally over looked it since High Sierra(I think it was when it came over from Mac Server). So, if i get this right. Does this mean that instead of buying a Synology/NAS for file back up locally. I could use Content caching on a Mac and iCloud, to give me an all in one in house and online back up by just using ICloud Drive like I do now, but without the pain of waiting to download files from iCloud??