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im planning to use my old computer as a home network server

 

specs-

CPU- Celeron D

RAM- 1 GB

HDD- Over 200 GB

 the rest of the specs idk

 

which open source nas will work better with my computer?

(i am kind of ok with computer stuff but i still would need tutorials)

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19 minutes ago, another random person said:

im planning to use my old computer as a home network server

 

specs-

CPU- Celeron D

RAM- 1 GB

HDD- Over 200 GB

 the rest of the specs idk

 

which open source nas will work better with my computer?

(i am kind of ok with computer stuff but i still would need tutorials)

I would say neither. Install ubuntu server and samba. It would handle it better, considering your small storage capabilities.

My native language is C++

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I use freenas and I really like the feature set. However nas4free is much more open. Basically if you trust the creators of freenas and want better features+support I'd vote for freenas, if you don't trust them and consider the additional features less valuable than potential privacy then go with nas4free. Either way I wouldn't recommend using ancient hardware due to the lack of a minimum of 8GB of ECC ram which your old motherboard probably won't be able to support anyway.

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17 minutes ago, Kyle Manning said:

I would say neither. Install ubuntu server and samba. It would handle it better, considering your small storage capabilities.

i will be upgrading my storage to 500+ gb

will ubuntu server still work fine?

 

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CPU: Ryzen 7 3700x MOBO: MSI X570-A Pro RAM: 32 GB Corsair DDR4

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1 hour ago, another random person said:

i will be upgrading my storage to 500+ gb

will ubuntu server still work fine?

 

It should work the same. Ubuntu is based off of debian, and I am using debian on the new 1pb san I'm designing.

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