The model is an HP Presario CQ57 Notebook PC:

  • AMD C-50 Processor (1 GHz)
  • 2 GB of DDR3 RAM (obviously I need more)
  • 64-bit
  • Ralink RT5390 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (It also has an Ethernet port but I’m unsure of how to find the details for it)

Currently I’m running Cockpit in Proxmox, which works fantastic by the way. But I saw this guide where they suggest splitting your compute and NAS, so I figured I could finally put this dusty win7 laptop to work.

The battery definitely has an issue, as it only works when plugged in. Should I bother with this laptop, or should I just buy a Pi or something? If I do use this, should I stick with Cockpit, or switch to something else like TrueNAS or Openmediavault? I have my 4 drives in a ZFS striped mirror configuration, with data traveling over USB (which sucks considering the non-USB 3.0 ports on the laptop…)

Once again, thanks for your guidance!

  • tvcvt@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    Sure. For full disclosure, I also run separate compute and storage. I do think separating storage from a compute cluster can be a good option, but not necessarily for the use case described in the original question.