You could run FreeNAS (v7, not sure about later) on that. Not sure if it's worth it for a single drive device.
What does it do?
It's a headless computer, in a tiny form factor that sits on the mains socket, with a drive bay. You use it for whatever you'd use a tiny headless computer for. The low power requirements make "always on" acceptable; thus things like torrenting or file serving or etc etc are okay.
Compare this tiny low-power device running a Linux distribution for file serving with that old desktop - bigger, uglier, hotter, more power hungry.
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That's 512 MB of RAM, not storage.
You could run FreeNAS (v7, not sure about later) on that. Not sure if it's worth it for a single drive device.
What does it do?
It's a headless computer, in a tiny form factor that sits on the mains socket, with a drive bay. You use it for whatever you'd use a tiny headless computer for. The low power requirements make "always on" acceptable; thus things like torrenting or file serving or etc etc are okay.
Compare this tiny low-power device running a Linux distribution for file serving with that old desktop - bigger, uglier, hotter, more power hungry.