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Thin client as a File server / NAS

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  • NAS / RAID
  • File Server
  • Hard Drives
  • Systems
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June 30, 2014 2:03:29 AM

Hey all I was recently given an old thin client that needed a new HDD I put in a 200GB IDE drive I had laying around and was thinking of doing a home server but am struggling to find a distro that will run on its 128MB of ram. any suggestions? I would prefer being able to access files from other places but if not a NAS would be fine.

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June 30, 2014 3:36:11 AM

The only OS I can think of is Windows XP, but the bigger problem is that the 128MB RAM, IDE HDD and (I presume) very old processor will result in file read/write times being very, very low. File server performance isn't just down to the speed of your LAN, as the processing is still done on the server.
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June 30, 2014 3:37:01 AM

an ancient version of mandrake would work
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