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Will an old computer from 2007 serve well as a NAS?

ShiroArikawa
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Woo, titles. ^ -^

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Up to last year I used my old windows XP computer for a nas. Now I have a server for my nas. To answer the question yes just make sure you make it a clean install to free up the most of the hard drives.

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Depends on the PC... If it's a Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad or dual core Pentium, it should be fine :D

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Forgot to list specs: pentium e2200, 3gb ram, hd 4760.

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52 minutes ago, ShiroArikawa said:

Forgot to list specs: pentium e2200, 3gb ram, hd 4760.

 

What would you be using the NAS for? What OS would you be running? Do you intend to transcode with it? Stream from it (without transcoding)? Just use it as a file server? etc...? 

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48 minutes ago, ShiroArikawa said:

Forgot to list specs: pentium e2200, 3gb ram, hd 4760.

 

Depends on the performance that you want. That GPU is not going to do be doing anything in the NAS so I would take it out to conserve power. What do you intend to do on it? Simple file storage and transfer or do you intend to run a Plex server or the like on it. Also what OS do you plan to use, for FreeNas (my favorite and one of the more common) you should be using at least 8GB RAM.

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2 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

What would you be using the NAS for? What OS would you be running? Do you intend to transcode with it? Stream from it (without transcoding)? Just use it as a file server? etc...? 

@Bgordy2013 using win Xp and just for files, juicy files.

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Win XP lost support a while back, so if it has web access it'll be a gaping hole. But you could even put ubuntu on there or Nas4free and setup a samba/CIFS share... Allow guest access and call it a day (assuming you don't care who on your LAN has access to it)

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Sorta want it across wifi, as my mother has a laptop and moves, and is running outta storage.

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39 minutes ago, ShiroArikawa said:

Sorta want it across wifi, as my mother has a laptop and moves, and is running outta storage.

You can still share it from your desktop, nothing is preventing you from doing that unless you live in a different house - even then a tunnel could fix that.

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On 2/1/2016 at 3:02 PM, ShiroArikawa said:

@Bgordy2013 using win Xp and just for files, juicy files.

Yeah that'll do then. As Mikensan said go with Ubuntu over XP. Really easy to set up a CIFS or Samba share. I really wouldn't reccomend XP for any purpose at this point.

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