CLSegraves
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I'd like to build a small documents NAS to centralize documents on my home network. The idea was to use a micro ATX MB with a dual core atom CPU and a pair of 500Gig drives mirrored. No streaming media, just housing word/excel/pdf/etc. docs rather than keeping them on local desktops.
Is the dual core atom cpu capable of pulling this off or will it be too slow even for this? If the atom isn't the solution, then what is a good low power cpu I can stick on a micro ATX MB to make a low power docs NAS?
Thanks,
Chris
edit: Should have mentioned I have been running FreeNAS on a large home network machine for going on 6 years now and it works flawlessly. It's just that the old machine is a real power hog and was built to stream movies/audio/etc. I no longer do any of that these days (don't even have movie drives in the NAS anymore) and having a big power hog for word docs just isn't something I want anymore.
Is the dual core atom cpu capable of pulling this off or will it be too slow even for this? If the atom isn't the solution, then what is a good low power cpu I can stick on a micro ATX MB to make a low power docs NAS?
Thanks,
Chris
edit: Should have mentioned I have been running FreeNAS on a large home network machine for going on 6 years now and it works flawlessly. It's just that the old machine is a real power hog and was built to stream movies/audio/etc. I no longer do any of that these days (don't even have movie drives in the NAS anymore) and having a big power hog for word docs just isn't something I want anymore.