new free nas server

[Brbm gaming]

i am wanting to take an old pc i have with a core 2 duo with 3 gigabytes of ram would this work well? it has a 60gb drive now i am going to replace it if it can work as a server.

P.S. it has a very old amd cpu so old it has red fan thing with flames on it.

[Electronics Wizardy]

it will work fine, but id also look at open media vault.

 

what drives are you using?

[Windows7ge]

If you can create a Homegroup (assuming you use windows) and share the main hard drive or attach an external drive and share it with the network it could serve as a NAS but I'm not sure how well it would handle being turned on 24/7. I don't know of a server designed Linux OS that isn't resource heavy. I know pfSense isn't a resource demanding OS but it's a Firewall/Router based OS not file storage. Their's CentOS but I'm not sure of it's system requirements and I don't know how to set it up as a file server.

[Brbm gaming]

2 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

If you can create a Homegroup (assuming you use windows) and share the main hard drive or attach an external drive and share it with the network it could serve as a NAS but I'm not sure how well it would handle being turned on 24/7. I don't know of a server designed Linux OS that isn't resource heavy. I know pfSense isn't a resource demanding OS but it's a Firewall/Router based OS not file storage. Their's CentOS but I'm not sure of it's system requirements and I don't know how to set it up as a file server.

well i got this pc for free i can always find a better one for free with atleast some better parts 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Brbm gaming said:

well i got this pc for free i can always find a better one for free with atleast some better parts 

you also paying for power.

[Electronics Wizardy]

5 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

Their's CentOS but I'm not sure of it's system requirements and I don't know how to set it up as a file server

centos will run on almost anything. it idles at around 100mb or ram and you can run a fileserver on about 256mb of ram just fine.

[Brbm gaming]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

you also paying for power.

my best bet is to try to go dumpster diving or searching for a used with descent parts and storage but a little old

[Brbm gaming]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

centos will run on almost anything. it idles at around 100mb or ram and you can run a fileserver on about 256mb of ram just fine.

i have like 3 gb so i will be fine

[Windows7ge]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

centos will run on almost anything. it idles at around 100mb or ram and you can run a fileserver on about 256mb of ram just fine.

Yeah, I'm on the complete other end of the spectrum running FreeNAS with ZFS so tons of RAM is necessary for me.