I acquired some old hardware from work today which I'm hoping will be useful for building a NAS server. I have the following Intel chips but I'm not sure which one is best suited...
I had hoped to use Server 2008 R2 but that hangs on whether or not an x64 Celeron is better than an x86 P4. The mainboard that will be used is an Intel D101GGC which is limited to 2 Gb of ram anyway. Planning on using a PCIE RAID controller with 8 drives attached, not decided on which one yet though.
Any thoughts???
- Pentium 4 530J (part SL7PU) - 3.0 GHz, single core with HT (so OS sees two cores, right?), x86 only, 1 Mb cache, 800 MHz bus
- Celeron D 351 (part SL7TZ) - 3.2 GHz, single core (no HT), x64, 256 Kb cache, 533 MHz bus
I had hoped to use Server 2008 R2 but that hangs on whether or not an x64 Celeron is better than an x86 P4. The mainboard that will be used is an Intel D101GGC which is limited to 2 Gb of ram anyway. Planning on using a PCIE RAID controller with 8 drives attached, not decided on which one yet though.
Any thoughts???