I have an old PC collecting dust in the garage, I'm thinking about turning it into a file server/media server. I mainly watch media on a Roku box and on my desktop PC. There are a few Android phone and tablets as well. Also would be great if I can run BitTorrent directly on this server. I also have large number of photos in Camera Raw format, these are about 25MB each. Would like to store these on this server, but be able to edit and view photos from any computer. The specs are quite out of date:
- AMD Semprom 2.8Ghz single core
- 4 GB DDR3
- Mobo has 4 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors, 1000Mbps LAN, no RAID controller
The plan is to buy 2x4TB hard drive and run FreeNAS on a flash drive. Would I need a RAID controller? I'm not sure how to stream movies from FreeNAS to Roku, if anyone has experience, please do share. What do you think about this? Hardware too weak for this application? Maybe I should stick with just running Win7 or Win2008?
- AMD Semprom 2.8Ghz single core
- 4 GB DDR3
- Mobo has 4 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors, 1000Mbps LAN, no RAID controller
The plan is to buy 2x4TB hard drive and run FreeNAS on a flash drive. Would I need a RAID controller? I'm not sure how to stream movies from FreeNAS to Roku, if anyone has experience, please do share. What do you think about this? Hardware too weak for this application? Maybe I should stick with just running Win7 or Win2008?
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