DerekOS
Cadet
- Joined
- Jan 10, 2014
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Hi All,
This is my first post on the forum, but I've been hanging around here for quite a while now reading up as much as I can on all things NAS related. Basically, I have an Apple Mac Pro just sitting in the corner at the moment gathering dust and I'm wondering if it's possible to use this as the basis for a FreeNAS System. From what I can see, it seems to tick most of the boxes:
2 x 2.66GHz Dual Core Intel 5150 Xeon CPUs
Intel 5000x Northbridge Chipset
ICH10 Southbridge Chipset
Nvidia GeForce 7300GT Graphics Card (PCIe)
ECC RAM 667Mhz FB-DIMMs (32GB max)
4 x PCIe Slots (one double wide 16-lane)
6 x SATA 3Gbp/s (4 bays, 2 additional on the board for expansion)
2 x Gigabit Ethernet Ports (Intel 80003ES2LAN)
5 x USB 2.0 ports
2 x Firewire 400 ports
2 x Firewire 800 ports
I haven't even tried to test it out or anything yet, but Im just wondering if anyone has had any experience using one of these as a NAS or If you can see any potential problems with it?
I know I could build a better tailor made system as a NAS device, but like I said, this is just laying around gathering dust at the moment, so it would be good to give it a new lease of life!
Thanks,
Derek
This is my first post on the forum, but I've been hanging around here for quite a while now reading up as much as I can on all things NAS related. Basically, I have an Apple Mac Pro just sitting in the corner at the moment gathering dust and I'm wondering if it's possible to use this as the basis for a FreeNAS System. From what I can see, it seems to tick most of the boxes:
2 x 2.66GHz Dual Core Intel 5150 Xeon CPUs
Intel 5000x Northbridge Chipset
ICH10 Southbridge Chipset
Nvidia GeForce 7300GT Graphics Card (PCIe)
ECC RAM 667Mhz FB-DIMMs (32GB max)
4 x PCIe Slots (one double wide 16-lane)
6 x SATA 3Gbp/s (4 bays, 2 additional on the board for expansion)
2 x Gigabit Ethernet Ports (Intel 80003ES2LAN)
5 x USB 2.0 ports
2 x Firewire 400 ports
2 x Firewire 800 ports
I haven't even tried to test it out or anything yet, but Im just wondering if anyone has had any experience using one of these as a NAS or If you can see any potential problems with it?
I know I could build a better tailor made system as a NAS device, but like I said, this is just laying around gathering dust at the moment, so it would be good to give it a new lease of life!
Thanks,
Derek