Brand of CPU doesn't really matter. Even VIA CPU's often more than suffice. I believe everything from the PIII and up will be able to act as a NAS if you use the right software. (FreeNAS, NASLite,...)
You don't need too much on the CPU and RAM side, I think the more important thing is a beefy NIC.
This isn't for RAID, right? Can you give an example system and the performance that you got from it?
I'm currently building a NAS out of an Athlon64 3200 machine w/ 1Gig RAM. I'd like to try various OS's with IOZone and see what I get.
My plan is to add a gigabit network card and a RAID5 array of 3x 750Gb disks with one spare to this PC.
Any comments anyone?
Perhaps the now obsolete ASUS board can become a backup server...
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