Re-using old workstation for FreeNAS, but not sure I'm clever enough

[Yorick]

My first thought is: You don't need a quad core for a snapshot box, and you'd benefit from IPMI so you never have to hook up a keyboard/monitor to the thing.

If you're not going for a Dell T140 or T40, how about a:
SuperMicro X11SCL-F (same cost as that Gigabyte but with IPMI, roughly USD 210)
Pentium G5400 (USD 60)
8GB or 16GB ECC memory (can do 16, but just for a snapshot receiver you likely won't need it - that said 16GiB of ECC DDR is USD 132 for one stick, you might as well)
Same PSU you proposed

 

[Bikerchris]

I've been wanting to write all day, but income/family kept obstructing.

Thank you so much for that @Yorick , I did initially look into the G5400 but I was only looking at my main tech providers websites for a matching motherboard. I've found that motherboard now, looks perfect, can't thank you enough.

I think I'll go with 8GB to start with and if the Windows incarnation doesn't mind it, I'll keep it that way.

 

[Bikerchris]

Nothing of any interest, but thought I'd show part of the new config, the re-use of an old Thermaltake Armor case and staggered sledge-less drive bays.

I've loaded it with 4 hellishly loud fans, they're all doing nicely so far.

(No idea why the pic is 90 degrees retated, PS and Paint both display upright!)

 

[jgreco]

(No idea why the pic is 90 degrees retated, PS and Paint both display upright!)

FTFY.

In the old days, most of the time, "rotation" was usually handled by physically manipulating the pixels and re-encoding your image as a .JPG or whatever. This resulted in some loss of resolution. With the advent of digital cameras, some of which were really almost incapable of such computational feats, orientation data was added to the EXIF header to allow a picture to be rendered correctly simply by flipping a few bits in the metadata.

Because there is so much metadata included in a typical JPG, which can include stuff like your camera settings, which is fine, but also stuff like your name, your phone number, your e-mail address, the GPS location where the photo was taken, etc., many of which are bad to share. I expect the forumware is putting the images through an EXIF stripper, and maybe it is not one subtle enough to discriminate.

If you are interested in more information on this sort of thing, there are tools out on the Internet for it --

http://www.verexif.com/en/

Not any sort of recommendation or anything.

 

[Bikerchris]

FTFY.

Thank you mate.

That's really interesting, thank you for letting me know - so perhaps I should open it on a good old basic image editor and re-save it. I'll try that next time, thank you again.