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I have 3 SATA laptop Hard Drives which I would utilise in some way, preferably I would like to join them together (though USB) to my old PC (really old - 500MB of RAM) and somehow use that as a home "server" so that I can access any of the files from the computers around my house (Linux and Windows). How hard would that be to do? Could you include some easy-to-follow setup tips? Also would it be possible to access the information remotely (outside of my LAN) through the internet? Is that something I would have to pay for?
(I would prefer to have the main router with a dynamic IP but I have a spare one I could use for the server with static IP if needed.)
1You should learn the very basics of what a server is if you have such questions. – user1306322 – 2013-12-29T19:59:57.797
To build a server you first need some server hardware. You have an old desktop. – Moses – 2013-12-29T20:11:53.977
5I have a file server built out of an old HP workstation, you don't need server hardware. – Michael Frank – 2013-12-29T20:15:31.993
What are the sizes and model numbers for these drives? – cybernard – 2013-12-29T20:51:27.887
I don't think there is one straight answer for this. As for your hard drives, stick them in an old desktop computer case and there you go, you'll have your own storage location. "Serving" this information to your other machines is a whole other ball game, though. Look into sharing between Windows and Linux with Samba. Accessing your data remotely depends on how you want to access it, what type of data it is and what you do with it. If you just need access to the machine, look into SSH on a Linux system. You'll of course need to configure your ISP router to forward those requests internally. – canadmos – 2013-12-29T20:54:42.220
Perhaps your easiest option would to be to set up a simple secure ftp server. – canadmos – 2013-12-29T20:58:06.347
USB will limit you to 30mb/s assuming you even have USB 2.0. If the disks were similiar in size you could use software RAID 5 and get combined max around 90mb/s. Internally via SATA, EIDE or SATA to EIDE would be faster. – cybernard – 2013-12-29T20:58:21.210
How fast is network card in old PC? 10/100 or gigabit or something else? – cybernard – 2013-12-29T21:00:06.250
The 500MB of RAM is going make the system perform slowly. There are many things you can do slooooowly but performance will probably make you want to pull your hair out. – cybernard – 2013-12-29T21:38:46.487
lots more information would be nice. What kind of PC? What interfaces do the HDDs use? – Journeyman Geek – 2013-12-30T01:19:20.280