Rob94hawk
08-29-2008, 12:15 AM
I have an old rig not in use and a free port on my Verizon FiOS router.
The rig has 2.8Ghz 400mhz FSB socket 478 P4, 1GB PC133, ethernet card, and 32GB and 80GB hard drives.
Are these specs good enough for a NAS box?
There is an article in Maximum PC (Oct 2008) on how to build a NAS box and wanted to give it a try. What I am not understanding is it says that when you use freeNAS it wipes your hard drive clean so what happens to the drivers for the ethernet card, vid card, etc. Or do they mean that freenas just wipes out the part of the drive you want to use for storage keeping WinXP intact?
Max PC talks about using a thumbdrive for booting freenas but I don't think this mobo even supports that. It's a Dell that I bought from 2001, don't remember what the chipset is. Might be an i845? So I guess I'm going to have to partition the drive and install freenas on it?
Thanx
The rig has 2.8Ghz 400mhz FSB socket 478 P4, 1GB PC133, ethernet card, and 32GB and 80GB hard drives.
Are these specs good enough for a NAS box?
There is an article in Maximum PC (Oct 2008) on how to build a NAS box and wanted to give it a try. What I am not understanding is it says that when you use freeNAS it wipes your hard drive clean so what happens to the drivers for the ethernet card, vid card, etc. Or do they mean that freenas just wipes out the part of the drive you want to use for storage keeping WinXP intact?
Max PC talks about using a thumbdrive for booting freenas but I don't think this mobo even supports that. It's a Dell that I bought from 2001, don't remember what the chipset is. Might be an i845? So I guess I'm going to have to partition the drive and install freenas on it?
Thanx