Need help with making a NAS

[The Viking]

Hi i want to make a NAS for myself and was wondering if an old AMD E1 2500 would be enugh to run a basic NAS

 

note this IS a desktop pc even though it is a mobile CPU(APU)*

[Levent]

If you are on a super tight budget, using what you have on hand makes sense. I wouldnt say it would be the great with that CPU but sure is better than what I used as NAS few years back.

[Needfuldoer]

That's more than enough processing power to host files.

[MC Morrado]

An old PC with a couple extra hard drive chucked on should act as pretty good on-site offline storage. I'm the guy who uses an NVMe as a boot SSD

[The Viking]

On 3/2/2025 at 4:06 PM, MC.Morrado said:

An old PC with a couple extra hard drive chucked on should act as pretty good on-site offline storage. I'm the guy who uses an NVMe as a boot SSD

i was thinking the same thing

[OddOod]

On 3/2/2025 at 8:13 AM, The Viking said:

Hi i want to make a NAS for myself and was wondering if an old AMD E1 2500 would be enugh to run a basic NAS

 

note this IS a desktop pc even though it is a mobile CPU(APU)*

Welcome to the forums!
It'll be fine for a few drives, but it won't be doing any heavy lifting. Also, you're limited on PCIe lanes, only 8 lanes of gen 2 which means you're very limited on the number of drives you that can be supported. That being said, I've literally used an RPi as a NAS. Plugged 4 external drives into it and while it was insanely slow, it still worked