FreeNAS on an old laptop

[Nuclear Fusion]

Hi all, I'm considering building a cheap FreeNAS system with an old laptop we have. It is a Windows Vista Sony laptop with 3Gb of RAM and a Core 2 Duo 2.1 GHz I believe. The video card is faulty and produces blue streaks down the screen so it is currently sitting in a cupboard with no use for it, however I thought since it would be a headless server it would actually have some use now. Does anyone have any experience with using a laptop for a NAS? What would be the best way to connect multiple HDDs?

 

[Nuclear Fusion]

Yeah that was one thing I am worried about as they'll be USB 2.0 (given age of the laptop). I was thinking I could replace the HDD currently in there with a larger one and get another to replace the optical drive, other than that I think I'm probably limited to USB

 

[Nuclear Fusion]

Thanks for the replies everyone, I've tried using FreeNAS but keep getting a RAM parity error, both when installing from a flash drive and from a DVD

Any ideas or is it just a case of corrupt RAM?

EDIT: Thanks for the heads up about NAS4FREE, I installed the embedded version from a flash drive onto another and I can now access the server through the web interface. I'm thinking of getting an optical bay adapter and replacing the HDD in there and getting a pair of 2.5" HDDs and putting them in RAID 1. What 2.5" HDDs would people recommend for this use?