13-07-2012, 12:09 AM
Turn it into a NAS (Network Attached Storage).
A while back i picked an old computer off the street, its a P4 2 GHz with 768 MB ram in it. Was going to throw it out but remembered seeing a video on youtube about FreeNAS. So I knew I had a 500GB IDE drive about the house, found that and slapped it in with the 40GB that was in there, burnt the iso to disc and within 10 mins i was able to get to the web interface after installing the software on the old computer. It took about an hour to set the settings and work permissions out as I hadn't ever done anything like this before. It seems fairly quick at transferring data (2GB file in about 15 mins) so will be used as a file dump. The only settings I had to change on the computer were in the BIOS setup so the computer wouldn't halt on no keyboard error as in its current configuration you power it on and leave it to do its thing, if it needs to be shut down that can be done through the web interface.
If anyones interested the iso is here http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/...o/download and theres videos from the FreeNAS team here http://www.youtube.com/user/FreeNASTeam/videos
A while back i picked an old computer off the street, its a P4 2 GHz with 768 MB ram in it. Was going to throw it out but remembered seeing a video on youtube about FreeNAS. So I knew I had a 500GB IDE drive about the house, found that and slapped it in with the 40GB that was in there, burnt the iso to disc and within 10 mins i was able to get to the web interface after installing the software on the old computer. It took about an hour to set the settings and work permissions out as I hadn't ever done anything like this before. It seems fairly quick at transferring data (2GB file in about 15 mins) so will be used as a file dump. The only settings I had to change on the computer were in the BIOS setup so the computer wouldn't halt on no keyboard error as in its current configuration you power it on and leave it to do its thing, if it needs to be shut down that can be done through the web interface.
If anyones interested the iso is here http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/...o/download and theres videos from the FreeNAS team here http://www.youtube.com/user/FreeNASTeam/videos
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