Building a NAS from a old PC

Luuk van Riel

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Dear community,

I am planning to build a NAS. Its main purpose will be to store my 3tb media library and important files.
I have an old PC that worked fine untill a few months ago. I think the PSU failed on me.
Its got a older intel CPU and 5 SATA ports.

It was mainly used for gaming up untill 2010.
My questions are:

-Will it be a good idea to get a gold certified PSU for it and run it 24/7 with a couple of 3tb red's hooked up.
-Do i need to have the graphics card in there or can i set it up with freeNAS without GPU.

I would love to get your input on the matter.
 
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If your mobo has onboard graphics - I would go with that. I would also get a decent PSU (Corsair, Antec, Seasonic, XFX) - a 400-450W should suffice. For just streaming media libraries, you should have enough horsepower with about any pentium processor and 2GB-4GB of RAM. If you are running Windows 7/8 on the other computers (or using the XBOX for streaming), I would suggest running Windows 7/8 for simplicity....
If your mobo has onboard graphics - I would go with that. I would also get a decent PSU (Corsair, Antec, Seasonic, XFX) - a 400-450W should suffice. For just streaming media libraries, you should have enough horsepower with about any pentium processor and 2GB-4GB of RAM. If you are running Windows 7/8 on the other computers (or using the XBOX for streaming), I would suggest running Windows 7/8 for simplicity....
 
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