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Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
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I love my trueNAS!
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nah i tried to use my old pc for a nas, but it has almost no SATA ports. (it was a prebuilt)
Is there a trustworthy brand making these? I'd be afraid to buy a no-name and run into some bizarre firmware bug that just eats all my data one day
Something like this tends to be pretty strongly recommended https://www.ebay.ca/itm/155132091204
Thanks
I think startech makes similar
Mime didn't, but it is from 2006. I think it is messed up.
My GPU failed on my old (vista) PC and can no longer boot. Should I throw it away?
Integrated graphics?
This is a 2005 desktop. I can't even get it past the bootloader. Ideally I would run Linux on it headless, but i can't even get to that stage.
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A few years ago I had that case with a Laptop with a burnt dedicated graphics card.
The moment the Windows installer detected it, a blue screen ended the installation.
But a Linux installation worked and afterwards it was even possible to disable the damaged hardware permanently.
The laptop still runs without further problems.
I have an old machine been using as a Unraid server for years. It's an i7-3770 paired with 32GB of ram and like 4x2TB drives.
Finally upgrading it because it's just not going to keep meeting needs and frankly it's wicked old (might keep it as a gitlab runner server or something). Finally "upgrading" by taking some old hardware (and bought some new), to have a full compute + storage setup. Proxmox (Ryzen 9 5900XT + 128GB ram) with all the compute and TruNas (Ryzen 7 3700X + 64GB ram + 8x16TB drives [LSI LOGIC SAS9211-8I] [raidz2/82.62 TiB usable]) for storage with a private 10G direct link between the two (Intel X550T2BLK).