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On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, Manipula wrote:
Im looking for an old pc for a home server so you coukd sell it to me :-)
I've advertised one to the list a couple of times now... midi tower case, Athlon XP2400+ (I think) 1GB RAM, one IDE drive, CD maybe DVD, I can't remember. I did have an old colour monitor (tube) but took it to the tip in the end.
However the biggest issue with recycling - it's good in principle, but the reality is that a modern home server will use  the power of an old
desktop box...So use an old one to see if it's for you, then do it properly and buy a new low-power box based on an Atom or AMD low-power chip with some decent 'green' drives - but remember this will run 24/7 ...
A NAS box might be a viable alternative if you just want it to serve files...
Gordon
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