What's your budget like? Just file serving (through SMB/NFS) or are you going to do any VM's and such?
---- Julian On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Steve Tomporowski <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >
