Rehabilitation of Old PCs
I plan to build a FreeNAS box in the near future. I have an old Dell Poweredge server I can repurpose for this but for a number of reasons I can't do this yet. One reason is that I intend to use 2.5" hard drives harvested from other machines but they currently have data on them. I have a bunch of other drives of varying sizes doing nothing. I intend to build another NAS box with desktop bits and bobs and transfer the contents of the 2.5" to that secondary box. It's only an interim solution. Bear in mind, these projects are very low budget. They are also about learning. Low end machines I've two old desktops that I don't currently use for anything. They aren't the most modern machines. Arguably the better of the two is a Novatech machine with 4GB of RAM and an Athlon II X3 425 (actually a quad core chip with one core disabled). The micro ATX case has two 5.25" drive bays (one occupied by a SATA optical drive) and two 3.5" drive bays. The PSU is