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brandon11983 · 03-13-2005, 04:29 PM

Greetings all. I really need some more HDD space and I have been considering two options. Are there any benefits to having a full blown file server? It would be made out of an old PC. Nothing life alteringly fast either, 500-600 Mhz or so. I would stuff a bunch of RAM in it, too. I would then plug it into my PowerBook by gigabit. Would the added processing power of a separate machine be able to search through the drive/s faster? I would cram a 250 gig drive in it to begin with. I was thinking of putting a thin distro of Linux on it, unless something else would be better? Is it worth the extra time and money to do this, or should I just get an external firewire drive?

03-13-2005, 04:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
brandon11983 Stereophonic Location: Chitown!!	Making a cheap file server? Greetings all. I really need some more HDD space and I have been considering two options. Are there any benefits to having a full blown file server? It would be made out of an old PC. Nothing life alteringly fast either, 500-600 Mhz or so. I would stuff a bunch of RAM in it, too. I would then plug it into my PowerBook by gigabit. Would the added processing power of a separate machine be able to search through the drive/s faster? I would cram a 250 gig drive in it to begin with. I was thinking of putting a thin distro of Linux on it, unless something else would be better? Is it worth the extra time and money to do this, or should I just get an external firewire drive? __________________ Well behaved women rarely make history.