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using an old Dell PowerEdge for a fileserver

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TechBoyJK

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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).
 
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?
 
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.
 
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?
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OpenFiler maybe. Not sure yet.
 
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