{"id":2198,"date":"2009-10-27T09:06:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T01:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2009-10-27T09:08:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T01:08:16","slug":"anyone-after-a-nas-or-extra-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/27\/anyone-after-a-nas-or-extra-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone after a NAS (or extra PC)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been consolidating computer equipment in preparation for a move and I&#8217;ve put together a decent server machine that should work well as a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Network-attached_storage\">NAS<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/mediatomb.cc\/\">straight media server<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openfiler.com\/\">file server<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/ebox-platform.com\/\">does-everything server<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSC00386.JPG\"><img data-attachment-id=\"2201\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/27\/anyone-after-a-nas-or-extra-pc\/dsc00386\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSC00386.JPG?fit=480%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Z610i&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1256603851&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC00386\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSC00386.JPG?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSC00386.JPG?fit=480%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSC00386.JPG?resize=480%2C360\" alt=\"DSC00386\" title=\"DSC00386\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSC00386.JPG?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSC00386.JPG?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The specs are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2.8GHz Celeron CPU<\/li>\n<li>512MB 533Mhz DDR2 RAM<\/li>\n<li>200GB IDE HDD<\/li>\n<li>250GB IDE HDD<\/li>\n<li>80GB SATA HDD<\/li>\n<li>120GB SATA HDD<\/li>\n<li>2x NICs (onboard and PCI card)<\/li>\n<li>52x CDRW optical drive<\/li>\n<li>Inbuilt audio, video, and RAID on the mainboard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve installed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freenas.org\/\">FreeNAS<\/a> on it, which allows it to: appear as a network file share, act as a backup server, stream media to the Playstation 3 and Xbox360, and run a bittorrent client (so that you don&#8217;t have to leave your main computer running while downloading large files).<\/p>\n<p>Of course you don&#8217;t have to use it as a NAS. It runs &#8220;normal&#8221; operating systems just fine, and would probably be good as a general purpose PC &#8211; or even as a low-end gaming PC with the addition of a video card (the mainboard has a PCI-Express slot) and more RAM.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone is interested, I&#8217;m selling it for AU$120. The 15&#8243; Samsung LCD monitor next to it is also available for AU$30 (with the computer, or $40 by itself). Pick-up only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been consolidating computer equipment in preparation for a move and I&#8217;ve put together a decent server machine that should work well as a NAS (straight media server, file server, or does-everything server). Here&#8217;s a picture: The specs are: 2.8GHz Celeron CPU 512MB 533Mhz DDR2 RAM 200GB IDE HDD 250GB IDE HDD 80GB SATA HDD &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/27\/anyone-after-a-nas-or-extra-pc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anyone after a NAS (or extra PC)?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-zs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions\/2208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}