A new use for all K6 machines!!!
Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 1:57 am
Folks, in case you don't know, a new category of specialized PCs has popped up in the past few years...the NAS (Network Attached Storage).
The idea is great for people who have 2 or more PCs in a home or office and want to consolidate all their data (aside from OS and apps) into one machine that can be accessed like a central file server.
Enter: FreeNAS! A stripped-down version of the venerable FreeBSD operating system, designed specifically for file serving. It's hardware requirements are so low that even the cheapest of the cheapest new PC you can buy or build today is complete overkill. Runs satisfactorily on a Pentium 233MMX on a TX chipset with 128MB!!! And more so on anything faster.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/freen ... =93&t=4491
Have a home network? Put your old K6 to work, stuff 256MB-512MB on it and you should be good to go, provided FreeNAS does not complain about the hardware (I had one board it would not work with, another board gave no problems).
The idea is great for people who have 2 or more PCs in a home or office and want to consolidate all their data (aside from OS and apps) into one machine that can be accessed like a central file server.
Enter: FreeNAS! A stripped-down version of the venerable FreeBSD operating system, designed specifically for file serving. It's hardware requirements are so low that even the cheapest of the cheapest new PC you can buy or build today is complete overkill. Runs satisfactorily on a Pentium 233MMX on a TX chipset with 128MB!!! And more so on anything faster.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/freen ... =93&t=4491
Have a home network? Put your old K6 to work, stuff 256MB-512MB on it and you should be good to go, provided FreeNAS does not complain about the hardware (I had one board it would not work with, another board gave no problems).