Hi,
I've got some old hardware lying around gathering dust, and decided to build a NAS to give it some purpose. The idea is for it to be a simple content delivery platform for other devices in my home network, namely phones, chromecasts and a separate encoding machine, that should read it's input video/audio files from the NAS and write it's output to it. In total, there should be no more than 3, maybe 4 devices interacting with the NAS at any given time.
All content intended for the media devices will already be encoded to compatible formats and all my devices are set to communicate via SMB, so there won't be any encoding or dedicated media server running on the NAS, just an SMB server.
The hardware I have available is:
Motherboard:
Intel DG31PR
or
ECS G31T-M7
CPU:
Celeron 450 (1-core, 2.2GHz, 800MHz FSB, 512KB L2, 35W) - Avarage CPU Mark: 626
or
Core 2 Duo (2-core, 2.8GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 3MB L2, 65W) - Avarage CPU Mark: 1775
RAM:
1GB DDR2 667MHz (Markvision)
or
2GB DDR2 80MHz (Corsair)
I've looked in this forum and elsewhere for information regarding to the performance requirements for my use case, but couldn't find anything particlarly useful for this specific hardware combination, so I decided to ask for help from people more experienced/knowledgeable than I am in the subject.
What would be the most power-efficient combination of these parts that can deliver enough performance for my use case? Can I get away with using the Celeron? By the way, I'm willing to overclock/underclock the CPUs if it's beneficial to the use case.