The amount of power you will pay for to run an ancient PC like a P4 means you'll quite quickly spend enough to buy yourself a network enabled HDD like a WD My Book Live.
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Steve Tomporowski <[email protected]>wrote: > My sister just gave me her old computer. With the emphasis on old. It's a > Compaq Presario, P4 2.6GHz, 512 memory. The motherboard is an Asus and > does have two sata ports on board. Is this thing worth turning into a file > server (I'd want to put a raid card in it), or is this a give-away? Also, > what software should I use? I'd want to run it headless and just power > everything down when not being accessed. > > It came with one of the weirdest flat panel monitors I've ever dealt with. > It's a 19" Planar, and it has the odd quirk, now that I remember back to > when she got it, that it has to be plugged in for about 5 minutes before > you can turn it on. > > Thanks...Steve >
