To start things off, I am planning on building some sort of NAS to fill some of my storage needs. I have some old hardware but I am wondering if it is up to the task.
Specs:
Supermicro P4DCE+ http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/860/P4DCE_.cfm
2 x Intel Xeon 2.4Ghz with HT (Single Core, 2 threads, 32 bit)
4 x 512mb RDRAM (this is the max for this board)
Any ideas on what to do with this? I can get a RAID card and a gigabit ethernet card for it but would it be worth? I think the biggest killer is the 2 gigs of RAM. I don't think I'll be able to run FreeNas with ZFS very effectively with that but please correct me if I'm wrong on that.
I could always turn it into a firewall but that seems like complete overkill.
All ideas are welcome.
Thanks
Roman
Specs:
Supermicro P4DCE+ http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/860/P4DCE_.cfm
2 x Intel Xeon 2.4Ghz with HT (Single Core, 2 threads, 32 bit)
4 x 512mb RDRAM (this is the max for this board)
Any ideas on what to do with this? I can get a RAID card and a gigabit ethernet card for it but would it be worth? I think the biggest killer is the 2 gigs of RAM. I don't think I'll be able to run FreeNas with ZFS very effectively with that but please correct me if I'm wrong on that.
I could always turn it into a firewall but that seems like complete overkill.
All ideas are welcome.
Thanks
Roman