Re: old computer-file server

Josh wrote:
Got several old door-stops laying around, vintage PII-266, PII-300,
and a PII-350.

a couple of months ago, I couldn't resist buying 3 Seagate 160gb HD's
on sale for $40 apiece. I had figured I would be selling them to
friends/family/somebody, but everybody I know is just buying new
Dell's (don't get me started on Dell's). So, rather than have them
collect dust forever, I'm thinking of turning one or two of those old
PII'2 into a file server, using a Promise Ultra133 card.

Anyone have an opinion as to: How much would these old CPU's
bottleneck file transfer? They will be running win2000. Thought of
Linux, but I believe the latest distro's (Red Hat & Suse anyway) have
higher hardware requirements?

I'd rather save these HD's as "new, still in shrink wrap" rather than
try them out and then see the PII's aren't going to be able to handle
it.

As a side note, gb NIC's are cheap now, and gb (1000mbps) switches
aren't too bad, thought upgrading my home network.

Thoughts?

Thanks, Josh

The motherboards in PCs of that age may not be able to handle drives that size without a BIOS update, if one is even available.

Regards,

Ari


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