using an old Dell PowerEdge for a fileserver

[TechBoyJK]

I have a few older Dell PowerEdge tower servers. They are nice machines, with dual power supplies and hot swappable scsi drives.

How would a dual p2 400Mhz with like 1GB of ram and 6x36GB 10k scsi drives act as a NAS box? I need to setup a NAS that will be doing alot of reading and writing (storing photos for a website).

 

[Yellowbeard]

Sounds like a great use for them to me. NAS has very little CPU overhead and 1GB should be plenty unless you have a LOT of people hitting this box simultaneously.

What OS you thinking of using?

 

[Knavish]

If you're paying the electricity bill, you might do better in the long run by building a cheap, lower power dual core system with a couple of WD Green HDs.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: Yellowbeard
Sounds like a great use for them to me. NAS has very little CPU overhead and 1GB should be plenty unless you have a LOT of people hitting this box simultaneously.

What OS you thinking of using?

OpenFiler maybe. Not sure yet.

 

[Yellowbeard]

I have no idea if it compares to the features you need or what, but I built a nice little NAS box using FreeNAS.