Extra Harddrives

[Us3L3ss]

I got 3 old harddrives that I think still work, as well as the ribbon cables.

They came out of some old computers I had sitting in the garage. I want to make a network server to store stuff on, how should I go about doing this? Or are there any other things I could do with them? I could also get some more parts out of the comps, like a mobo, some RAM, PSU, Network card.

 

[DaveSimmons]

You can make evan an old Windows 98 PC into a file server, just set up the drives, connect it to your network and turn on file sharing.

You can also buy external drive enclosures for $80-150 that do the same thing with built in wireless (and wired) ports, so that might be easier and cleaner.

 

[Us3L3ss]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
You can make evan an old Windows 98 PC into a file server, just set up the drives, connect it to your network and turn on file sharing.

You can also buy external drive enclosures for $80-150 that do the same thing with built in wireless (and wired) ports, so that might be easier and cleaner.

Woud it be hard to hook up 3 harddrives to a compaq/HP

Aren't the external enclosures just to hook up multiple hard drives to a regular PC, is there one that I can just plug in the drives, and then into the network and have it be a file server?
ooh, so this is what you meant http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145372

 

[Us3L3ss]

Alright I'm just gonna pop them in my old computer

So what's a good Linux OS for NAS

 

[i1o0i]

I think RedHat or Ubunutu is good linux distrubution for network.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Us3L3ss
Alright I'm just gonna pop them in my old computer

So what's a good Linux OS for NAS

NASLite

- M4H

 

[Us3L3ss]

sounds good but costs money

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

I'm using an old PIII comp as a web server. It works very well.

 

[prochobo]

It doesn't matter what distro, it doesn't matter what OS. You're just filesharing and you won't see a difference. For Linux, just get Fedora or Ubuntu since it sounds like you're new if you want. I would recommend just using Windows. The only thing you have to watch out for in Linux is to make sure you've got DMA enabled.