pedal2dametal
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I received a Dell PowerEdge 2500 today but I'm pretty unsure on how to start cleaning it out so I can set it up as a home file server. Any tips, any particular version of Windows I should install? Thanks in advance!
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Question about Dell PowerEdge 2500
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Probably a bad choice for a home file server--realize that the machine is ~8 years old at this point and is going to be slow, loud, and power hungry. Also uses SCSI disks which will be anemic and expensive by today's standards. Terabyte range NAS devices run sub-$300 these days, and you'd be far better off going with one of those.
That said, if you're dead set on using this machine, you'll want to run either Windows 2000, Windows 2003, or some flavor of Linux.
That said, if you're dead set on using this machine, you'll want to run either Windows 2000, Windows 2003, or some flavor of Linux.
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