How's much CPU required for NAS

[Silverwho]

So I am planning on building a home NAS, but curious on how much CPU you actually need to run such a build, as I have a at least 3 AM3 mobos and a Athlon ii x2 and a phenom 955 BE just sitting around.

I am thinking the 955 will be too power hungry for this type of a build? 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

How much speed do you want from the nas? Are you running any other gprams?

 

The 955 should use about the same amount of power as both chips will be idle most of the time.

[RONOTHAN##]

Unless you are doing something crazy high speed or want to do transcoding when you put files on there, you really don't need much if any CPU horse power. If it were me, I'd through the phenom in just in case you want to do some transcoding on it, but either would work. The power difference between the two won't be high enough to really matter, since they'll be at idle most of the time anyway.

[flibberdipper]

For just a basic gigabit NAS, you don't need a whole lot of grunt. As for power consumption, the Athlon will undoubtedly consume just a hair less while idling.

[Silverwho]

Yeah it will mainly just used for storage and to stream from so mostly will be sat idle, I currently just have loose HDDs that I plug up to my current build and put want I want from them onto thumb drive then plug into tv, haha I'm just after quicker access from that