Agreed! A buffalo station or something similar will have a much lower power consumption, higher capacity, and be faster.
If you want to give it a try on there, check out freenas. If it was a newer machine, open filer and nexenta are great too. As always, more ram helps a lot with this NAS OS's. Julian Sent from my iProduct, cause I'm iSpecial.... But not in that ishort bus kind of way... On Jan 12, 2013, at 2:30 PM, Christopher Fisk <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>
