Hi all
Been out of touch with PC hardware for years now just want to know your thoughts on the following
Currently running an old PC as a media server mainly as well as web hosting and downloading box with transcoding videos on the fly with air video - got it running nicely with no issues,
Problem is its in a full tower and its taking up a bit too much room and the other half wants the box room spruced up
Now its an old atx board with a 3200+ althlon (yeh its old lol) not high spec at all - its pretty much on 24hrs
What im thinking about is replacing this with a shuttle pc to act as a server instead - is this stupid - are they not meant to be on 24hrs etc I have no clue
Was maybe thinking of putting in a
Intel Pentium Dual Core with 2gb Ram - should be plenty
Also not sure what their power consumption is - but will google that again
The other option was to get a qnap or synology nas - but they dont seem as versatile to me and they are pretty expensive (£250 -300)
Any thoughts would be appreciated
Thanks
Oh the other final option is to perhaps get a smaller case and just transfer the lot into that
Been out of touch with PC hardware for years now just want to know your thoughts on the following
Currently running an old PC as a media server mainly as well as web hosting and downloading box with transcoding videos on the fly with air video - got it running nicely with no issues,
Problem is its in a full tower and its taking up a bit too much room and the other half wants the box room spruced up
Now its an old atx board with a 3200+ althlon (yeh its old lol) not high spec at all - its pretty much on 24hrs
What im thinking about is replacing this with a shuttle pc to act as a server instead - is this stupid - are they not meant to be on 24hrs etc I have no clue
Was maybe thinking of putting in a
Intel Pentium Dual Core with 2gb Ram - should be plenty
Also not sure what their power consumption is - but will google that again
The other option was to get a qnap or synology nas - but they dont seem as versatile to me and they are pretty expensive (£250 -300)
Any thoughts would be appreciated
Thanks
Oh the other final option is to perhaps get a smaller case and just transfer the lot into that
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