January 23, 201016 yr Hello all, Ive decided to give UNRAID a try and after researching I decided to use my old PC to do a NAS solution for data storage and am wondering if my hardware will suffice. I will eventually upgrade the hardware but want a cheap solution now as I only had a few hundred dollars to spend... What I have already: Abit NF7-S mobo with 2 SATA1 contrllers/NFORCE2 chipset/PCI bus 768mb DDR2 RAM running at 266Mhz Athlon XP 1600+ processor What I purchased: 2 1TB WD Caviar Black SATA drives DLink gigabit PCI NIC DLink DIR-825 Dual Band Gigabit Router. I could max out the processor to an Athlon XP 3000 or 3200+ for about $30-50. But is it worth putting more money into already antiquated hardware? I'd prefer to just use what I have and spend money on a new mobo/cpu/memory combo down the road. Any thoughts/input on whether this hardware will suffice for now is appreciated....
January 23, 201016 yr I'd prefer to just use what I have That's the best idea. Start playing with it. You'll learn a lot. And, read the wiki!
January 23, 201016 yr Check the post below, I have similar hardware and had just asked the question a few days ago http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5115.0
March 10, 201016 yr I know I'm rather late here, but wanted to comment when I saw 'nForce2'. I think you can probably run unRAID on that hardware, but I cannot recommend it to run *reliably* with multiple drives. The early nForce chipsets seem to make good gaming and ordinary desktop machines, but run into problems with server type usage. Search the Hardware Compatibility page for nforce, and you should find comments and links to related comments concerning the early nForce chipsets (nForce2, nForce3, and nForce4).
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