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On 25/04/15 19:12, damian brown wrote: > cheers for the reply > > im still new to linux and half of what you said i was like "what" lol > but i will defently give freenas a go > > have you got any experience with freenas and whats it system requirements > > the pc i plan to install this on has a > > intel celeron dual core e3770 @ 2GHz > 1 GB DDR1 (4x 256mb) > nvidia geforce 2 mx 32mb > 3x 80GB IDE HDD Wow, that's an *ahem* modest system! Nothing wrong with that, I'm just a little bit taken aback at just how modest it is. Where did you even find gear like that? I feel bad about having dual socket Xeons with a couple of Tb of SCSI RAID just lying around doing nothing... With hardware that gentle, you're probably going to have to use an appliance-like system: I withdraw my suggestion of FreeNAS because ZFS (the native filesystem for FreeNAS, like NTFS is the native filesystem for windows or ext3/4 for Linux) is voraciously RAM hungry and 1Gb is simply not going to cut it: FreeNAS recommends 8Gb minimum, and much much more if you want to do inline dedupe. You may well be better off installing a really minimal Linux distro like the LDXE Ubuntu spin or server 15.04 (released yesterday), but then you'd have to manually configure everything yourself and you just said you're pretty new to Linux. I cautiously recommend Openfiler instead - linux based instead of BSD, think it provides everything you want through a web based easy interface, no ZFS or horrendous hardware requirements. If anyone else wants to step in and recommend something feel free - I'm not used to dealing with hardware this weak unless it's something from the Arduino/RPi/ARM world. 80Gb IDE hard drives? Been a while since I've seen those in the wild! Hope that makes sense, just ask if it doesn't. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq