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i have a old intel pentuim 540 sytrem with half a gig or ram is it worth using as a host for a nas sever like whould it even be suproted knowing its a 32bit processor

 

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It'll work, but file transfers/transcoding/whatever else will be painfully slow. 

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11 minutes ago, Slottr said:

It'll work, but file transfers/transcoding/whatever else will be painfully slow. 

it has a ati gpu and what os u recomnd

 

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Ubuntu/Debian, it'll work fine as slow network storage and nut much else

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Just now, GOATWD said:

it has a ati gpu and what os u recomnd

 

a light Linux distro is going to be your best bet to get any kid of performance out of it. something like Xubuntu since it uses XFCE which is a light desktop environment.

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2 minutes ago, whispous said:

Ubuntu/Debian, it'll work fine as slow network storage and nut much else

 

1 minute ago, Brando212 said:

a light Linux distro is going to be your best bet to get any kid of performance out of it. something like Xubuntu since it uses XFCE which is a light desktop environment.

ok ill look in to them and i dont need speed haha so itll be fine

 

 

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Ubuntu has 32-bit (i386) images, and I assume its a gigabit system so should be just fine for storage and file transfer. 

Doing more on it would be a stretch though. Single processor systems have been lacking for a long time for anything modern. 

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Depending on how much electricity costs in your neck of the woods, you might actually spend more in the long run keeping that relic online than you would if you bought a used office desktop or NAS appliance.

 

It will work, but it might not be economically worth running.

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18 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

Depending on how much electricity costs in your neck of the woods, you might actually spend more in the long run keeping that relic online than you would if you bought a used office desktop or NAS appliance.

 

It will work, but it might not be economically worth running.

this is a good point to consider with an older system like that. power efficiency has come a long way on general use computers.

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