Budget (including currency): 200 CAD
Country: Canada (northern Ontario)
Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Network attached storage
Other details:
Currently have the option of using an existing PCs or Laptop. Known specs provided:
Laptop is a Toshiba satellite L300D (Athlon 64 x2, 2gb ram, Radeon X2500) (Storage device will need to be replaced)
PC1 is an Acer with the same CPU and 1gb of ram with 2 extra slots available, 4 SATA ports
PC2 Lenovo Core2 Duo machine.
The plan is to have at least 1TB of redundant storage and a 32-64gb system disk.
using 2 WD blue 1TB 7200RPM (WD10EZEX) drives Mirrored, via SATA interface or adapted to USB for laptop.
An ADATA SU655 (120gb) SSD can be used for the system
links:
https://www.amazon.ca/ADATA-SU655-Internal-ASU655SS-120GT-C-Version/dp/B07DNLY1R2/ref=sr_1_12?crid=GHU4WCM5H8K6&keywords=64gb+sata+ssd&qid=1648410331&sprefix=64gb+SATA+%2Caps%2C125&sr=8-12
https://www.amazon.ca/Western-Digital-Cache-Desktop-Drive/dp/B0088PUEPK/ref=sr_1_5?crid=2VFLW7CG2DY4D&keywords=1TB%2BHDD&qid=1648410428&sprefix=1tb%2Bhdd%2Caps%2C1509&sr=8-5&th=1
I will figure out the rest of the information as this is not urgent, Please feel free to share your advise and opinions in the comment section