True, I'd have to pump in some money for extra memory and a raid card.
My Book Live doesn't give you RAID until you get to the DUO and that
looks like a WD fully fledged disaster. Even their responses seem to be
trying to put the blame on the customer. Besides, the Duo would not be
expandable. And not cheap. I'd have to weight out the price
differences. Getting a NAS is ideal, but they aren't cheap and you
still have to buy all the disks. Time for a spreadsheet....
Thanks...Steve
On 1/12/2013 2:30 PM, Christopher Fisk 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
