is my old hardware good enough

[Omri B]

hi

i build a new PC few month ago and want to convert my old PC to NAS machine.

this is the hardware specification of my old PC:

• MoBo - Gigabyte GA-965P-DS4 (rev. 1.0) link
• CPU - Intel® Core™2 Quad Q8300 (4M Cache, 2.50 GHz) link
• RAM - 8 Gb DDR2 800Mhz
• GPU - Nvidia 8600GTS (will be removed)
• Case - Thermaltake Soprano link

Planning to put existing 2X500Gb drives in RAID-1
and (2+)x 2Tb drives for non backup media drive pool
usage is pictures and music backup and HD movies storage and streaming
*can't install more RAM on this MoBo
what do you think?

 

[cyberjock]

Doable, you'll be happy, but you have virtually no expandability in the future. I didn't check your network card though, so try it and see.