Homemade NAS

[Benliam12]

Hi, I have this old PC running a Core 2 Duo. Inside there is 2 320GB drive. Could I transform this Old PC into a NAS ? I know the speed won't really be important since this PC is like 10 years old but at least I could put Plex on it and fill up the ~640 total storage I have. 

 

If this is possible, can someone tells me what OS I need to put and a bit of help on how to setup this. 

If this ISN'T  possible, what other solution do I have to at least reuse the old drive. (Running out of SATA 2)

 

Thanks.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Yea you can make this a nas. 

 

Any os will work fine here. Freenas, unraid, debian, ubuntu, windows and others will all work.

 

Id would be worried about power consumption. Running a older system like that can use a good amount of power. Id just get a 1tb hdd for your desktop and make that as nas.

[newcbomb]

Plex should work just fine. Just make sure all your content is h264 since h265 will cause your CPU to have to transcode if the device you are watching on doesn't support h265. I would use Windows 7 as a "server" with Windows Shares for files unless you are comfortable using Ubuntu Server. 

[Benliam12]

19 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yea you can make this a nas. 

 

Any os will work fine here. Freenas, unraid, debian, ubuntu, windows and others will all work.

 

Id would be worried about power consumption. Running a older system like that can use a good amount of power. Id just get a 1tb hdd for your desktop and make that as nas.

I guess power is fine? I mean that computer use to run these 2 drives all the time. Will switching the Os makes it consume more power ?

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 hours ago, Benliam12 said:

I guess power is fine? I mean that computer use to run these 2 drives all the time. Will switching the Os makes it consume more power ?

os won't change power much, but running a core 2 duo system 24/7 can add 20bucks to your power bill every month depending on your power costs.

[Benliam12]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

os won't change power much, but running a core 2 duo system 24/7 can add 20bucks to your power bill every month depending on your power costs.

Oh I don't really mind the cost, I'm living in Quebec and electricity isn't too expensive. I was wondering about if my power supply would be enough  (400W but very old) so yeah

[Electronics Wizardy]

5 minutes ago, Benliam12 said:

Oh I don't really mind the cost, I'm living in Quebec and electricity isn't too expensive. I was wondering about if my power supply would be enough  (400W but very old) so yeah

yea the psu will be fine if it runs. I wouldn't bother touching it if it works.