Dell Dimension 9100 NAS

[Hey_Itz_Nathan]

I have a old Dell Dimension 9100 and wondering if I could use it as a NAS.

Specs

CPU: Intel Pentium D 820
RAM: 8GB of DDR2
That's pretty much all I know about the system

 

[danb35]

Intel and DDR2 means a front-side bus, which is always a bad idea. It probably could run FreeNAS, but performance would be abysmal.

 

[Hey_Itz_Nathan]

Intel and DDR2 means a front-side bus, which is always a bad idea. It probably could run FreeNAS, but performance would be abysmal.

so what the download and upload speeds are super slow?

 

[danb35]

Every operation that involves the CPU accessing the RAM will be significantly slowed down. Since ZFS makes extensive use of the RAM, pretty much everything you'd do on that server would be very slow.

 

[Hey_Itz_Nathan]

Every operation that involves the CPU accessing the RAM will be significantly slowed down. Since ZFS makes extensive use of the RAM, pretty much everything you'd do on that server would be very slow.

What if I use more RAM?

 

[nightshade00013]

What if I use more RAM?

The amount of ram will not matter it's the way the cpu access the ddr2 ram.

If you already have it sitting around with nothing else to do you can use it as a testbed but in all honesty it's going to have a lot of stuff that works just fine for Windows and not so well for FreeNAS.

I would suggest reading through https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/hardware-recommendations-guide.12/

 

[Hey_Itz_Nathan]

But it will run right?

 

[nightshade00013]

But it will run right?

Try it and find out. But don't think your data will be safe or quickly accessible.

 

[Hey_Itz_Nathan]

yea its so old its so old xp runs like a snail but ill try

 

[danb35]

But it will run right?

It's a 64-bit CPU with an adequate amount of RAM; it should operate. It might be more like crawling than running, though.

 

[Hey_Itz_Nathan]

Will it still run with 1.5 GB of RAM? I plan to upgrade to 8GB later

 

[danb35]

Will it still run with 1.5 GB of RAM?

No.