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wazzledoozle

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If the second poll question is "If yes, then bla bla" you dont need a repeat answer from the first poll question. Screws up the results.

Personally, I have a SFF Via C3 1.1 gigapro (800 mhz) with two 160gb seagates. Basically a glorified external hard drive running windows 2k3.
 

Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
If the second poll question is "If yes, then bla bla" you dont need a repeat answer from the first poll question. Screws up the results.

Personally, I have a SFF Via C3 1.1 gigapro (800 mhz) with two 160gb seagates. Basically a glorified external hard drive running windows 2k3.

2k3?! Dude....you are killing the poor c3:(
 

erub

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Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
If the second poll question is "If yes, then bla bla" you dont need a repeat answer from the first poll question. Screws up the results.

Personally, I have a SFF Via C3 1.1 gigapro (800 mhz) with two 160gb seagates. Basically a glorified external hard drive running windows 2k3.

dude, you actually bought a C3? no ways
 

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Lifer
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Originally posted by: erub
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
If the second poll question is "If yes, then bla bla" you dont need a repeat answer from the first poll question. Screws up the results.

Personally, I have a SFF Via C3 1.1 gigapro (800 mhz) with two 160gb seagates. Basically a glorified external hard drive running windows 2k3.

dude, you actually bought a C3? no ways

heh:D

they make great low-powered routers and such...that's about it:p
 

child of wonder

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Ubuntu 6.10 running Samba, among many other things.

AMD Athlon XP 2100+
512MB DDR
2x20GB HDDs RAID 1 for Linux
3x500GB HDDs RAID 5 /storage
 

wazzledoozle

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Originally posted by: erub
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
If the second poll question is "If yes, then bla bla" you dont need a repeat answer from the first poll question. Screws up the results.

Personally, I have a SFF Via C3 1.1 gigapro (800 mhz) with two 160gb seagates. Basically a glorified external hard drive running windows 2k3.

dude, you actually bought a C3? no ways

Got it for free. Coupled with 384mb of ram, and all unnecessary windows services/appearance crap turned off, it runs quite smoothly.
 

OVerLoRDI

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Athlon 64 3500, 2gb of ram, 6800gt, 7 hard drives totaling about 700gb. Functions as a quite good gaming machine still as well. Used for files, and also when friends are over and don't want to bring entire comp.
 

Staples

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Yes but it does other things too. Runs F@H, bittorrent sometimes, and works as a DVR.
 

Evadman

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Yes, 14 drive windows 2003. currently replacing it with a NAS device.
 

Pacfanweb

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Nope. I've thought about building one, and have plenty of old components to do it, but I can't figure out what I'd do with one.
 

xeemzor

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I run a file server for my dorm built from everyone's spare parts and duct tape. It runs Debian and hosts all of the floor's shared media, such as recordings from our htpc. Of course, only legal files are permitted and anything put on there that is illegal is deleted immediately.
 

adairusmc

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Yes.

Opteron 150, 1gig DDR, Adaptec SATA RAID controller, 8 250gig hard drives (RAID5). Windows Server 2003
 

Staples

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Originally posted by: xeemzor
I run a file server for my dorm built from everyone's spare parts and duct tape. It runs Debian and hosts all of the floor's shared media, such as recordings from our htpc. Of course, only legal files are permitted and anything put on there that is illegal is deleted immediately.

So that means you have a total of 0 files on the server.
 

aldamon

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We use our file server to run TVersity. It streams files to our DSM-520 media player.

Athlon 700 Slot A
256MB PC100
160GB HDD
ASUS AGP-V3800 TNT2
Windows XP
 

technophile82

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redhat linux, running apache here. built from old spare computer parts, 1.73ghz athlon xp, 768mb ram, 40gb drive, etc
 

InlineFive

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I have two Linux boxes for firewall and VMware. The VMware machine always runs SAMBA, Wildfire (Jabber server) and Win2k3 Server.

For media sharing I just use my secondary rig.