CPUs for NAS/home server?

[williamli9300]

Linus has always been an advocate for repurposing old PCs as home media servers or NAS', so I thought, I have two really old PCs that haven't run anything better than Windows 7 and 8 respectively for a good four or five years, at least. I'm quite new to the PC world, and I'm not sure if the two CPU's are good enough for a home server and offsite backup, mostly for photos and videos.

 

The first one is a Dell Inspiron 560 running an Intel Core 2 Quad, and the other is an HP Pavilion 500 running an AMD A10-7800 Radeon R7 APU.

 

The A10 got a score of 232 in Cinebench R15, runs at 48 deg idle, and maxes at 82 during Cinebench. I haven't had a chance to bench the Core 2 Quad yet, since there might be an issue with the hard drive that I'm still trying to resolve.

 

Would these two CPUs be good for running a home server/NAS and offsite backup running FreeNAS, or would they be not strong enough or overkill? If one or both wouldn't be a good fit, what could they be used for, before probably just selling them on eBay, and any recommendations for cheap CPUs good for the job?

 

Thanks in advance!

[SupaKomputa]

Yeah should be good. You need at least 8gb memory for freenas.

Use Open Media Vault instead.