Can a Mac mini 3.1 be used as a server?

Hi,
I've got an "old" Mac Mini from late 2009 that aren't being used for anything at the moment.
I'm considering using it as a server for my other macs - but before I purchase the Lion Server I just wanner make sure that it's up for the task.
It's already got 8Gb memory. I'm going to buy a 2Tb harddrive for it and a 2Tb usb harddrive - as far as I can read on other sites it should be okay with 4Tb harddrive. Does anybody have experience with this kind of setup?
I'm going to plug in an EyeTV as well to show recordings from that on my AppleTV through iTunes - Does anybody have experience with this kind of setup?
Any suggestion regarding choice of harddrive will be appreciated.
Regards,
Lars Hansen - Denmark

You shouldn't have a problem. The Late 2009 Mac minis make really decent servers outside of the fact that storage can potentially be an issue if you need lots of it. USB2 might be a little slow if you have the need to be constantly moving a lot of data. For what it's worth, I use a Late 2009 Mac mini as our server for everything (mail, contact, calendars etc etc) but file sharing (which I use a Mac Pro 2006 to do this). This is how under utilized the CPUs are in this regard running Lion Server 11G63…

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