Hello, I wasn't sure the best part of the forum to post this, so if it needs to be moved, please feel free.
I have an older desktop that I want to turn into a NAS type device to act as a backup for my existing dedicated NAS (or vice versa).
I currently have a dlink dns-321 with mirrored 1TB drives that acts as my primary backup device. Just because I wouldn't have any luck if it weren't for bad luck, along with I feel the need to use old hardware until its dead, I want to add a secondary backup with my old desktop.
Specs are:
AMD Athlon 64 x2 5600+
MSI 7309 MB
2GB DDR2, I don't remember the clock speed
Nvidia Geforce 7900GS, the motherboard only has 2 SATA ports, both currently occupied.
1 40GB IDE drive which I was contemplating using as the boot/os drive, freeing up the 1TB's for data storage.
2 mirrored 1tb sata drives on the built in nforce raid controller.
I don't want to spend any money, if I were to, I'd just buy a new NAS device.
I'm open to OS choices, I do have a copy of the first version of Windows home server (5.2 kernal, 2003) I could use, but I also figure this could give me some experience with other OS's, I haven't touched anything *nix since Ubuntu 8.04 so why not use this as an excuse?
A simple web based interface would be ideal.
I don't need the remote access capabilities of Windows Home Server and I already have a machine that serves as my web server running Server 2008 R2.
the primary purpose would be to be able to perform automated scheduled backups of my existing NAS over my wired LAN.
All my other PC's already backup to the dlink NAS via Windows 8 file history, or in the case of my test web server, drive image xml.
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Hello, I wasn't sure the best part of the forum to post this, so if it needs to be moved, please feel free.
I have an older desktop that I want to turn into a NAS type device to act as a backup for my existing dedicated NAS (or vice versa).
I currently have a dlink dns-321 with mirrored 1TB drives that acts as my primary backup device. Just because I wouldn't have any luck if it weren't for bad luck, along with I feel the need to use old hardware until its dead, I want to add a secondary backup with my old desktop.
Specs are:
AMD Athlon 64 x2 5600+
MSI 7309 MB
2GB DDR2, I don't remember the clock speed
Nvidia Geforce 7900GS, the motherboard only has 2 SATA ports, both currently occupied.
1 40GB IDE drive which I was contemplating using as the boot/os drive, freeing up the 1TB's for data storage.
2 mirrored 1tb sata drives on the built in nforce raid controller.
I don't want to spend any money, if I were to, I'd just buy a new NAS device.
I'm open to OS choices, I do have a copy of the first version of Windows home server (5.2 kernal, 2003) I could use, but I also figure this could give me some experience with other OS's, I haven't touched anything *nix since Ubuntu 8.04 so why not use this as an excuse?
A simple web based interface would be ideal.
I don't need the remote access capabilities of Windows Home Server and I already have a machine that serves as my web server running Server 2008 R2.
the primary purpose would be to be able to perform automated scheduled backups of my existing NAS over my wired LAN.
All my other PC's already backup to the dlink NAS via Windows 8 file history, or in the case of my test web server, drive image xml.
Thanks for your input.
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