Hi all, I've been running a NAS / SBS on a Sheevaplug until recently when the SD card died. I also have an older Core Solo x86 laptop with 2GB of RAM. I was thinking of turning that into a NAS as it has a lot of advantages over the Sheevaplug, not the least being the convenience of a built-in keyboard and monitor for maintenance. My storage are two USB hard drives formatted as NTFS, a 2TB and a 3TB.
My goals are: 1. NAS functions to back up files from my desktop and stream media to XBMC. Straight SMB shares work for this, no need for UPNP, etc. Hopefully support for NTFS. 2. SBS for a modest library. 3. Ideally a Crashplan client to back up my backups. 4. Low-ish power, the server will be idle 9/10ths of the time so it would be nice if it could spin down the drives. I looked into FreeNAS but it doesn't support my disks without reformatting and seems to require a lot of tinkering to get SBS or Crashplan to work. I could also just go with Windows 8 but I'd need to buy a license and it may be overkill. Any other thoughts on reusing an old laptop as a server? Thanks, -Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DrewSB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=26817 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101690 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
