ppmoore;229513 Wrote: > But my intention is to install SuSE Linux or freeNAS on an old 800 MHz > machine I have, and run SlimServer on that. However, I'll have to > upgrade the hard disk, since the original is only 20 GB. Personally I recommend Ubuntu Linux. FreeNAS also looks like a good option.
> Has anyone any advice as to which brand of hard disk works best? I'm > thinking that I'd like to be able to spin down the hard disk when not > in use, do all modern hard disks support that? Can Linux support it? > What hard disk controller should I use? I think the original hard disk > is IDE, should I buy a new SATA controller. (I don't know much about > hard disk hardware!) Seagate, that's it. I don't recommend any other brand of disks right now. All modern disks support spindown. On Ubuntu you can install the "laptop-mode" and "laptop-mode-tools" packages that will help with spindown setup. Linux has a lot of misc things that access the disk, it takes a bit of tweaking to get the disk to not constantly spin up and down. Most of the time I recommend not using spin down, it's just causes more wear on desktop disks. > As well as using the old box to host my music files, I would also like > to use it to back up all family's PC. I suppose that this shouldn't be > a problem? The best program I've found for this is backuppc. The Ubuntu package is of course "backuppc" More info Here: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > How much memory should I install on the box, I think the original PC has > 256MB installed. As much as you think is cost effective. 512 would be a minimum I would bring it up to.. but it's not worth spending lots of money to max it out. If you can give me more info about the PC, I could suggest some more details. -- SuperQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38646 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
