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I currently am using my old PIII machine stored in my closet as a file and print server. It's plenty of power for what I need, but it doesn't support SATA and other modern protocols, so I can't load it up with disk space. I was originally thinking about replacing it with a home NAS, but Justin Lin convinced me otherwise. He convinced me to virtualize my workstation (an Athlon machine) instead.

Here's what I'm going to do:

• Upgrade the RAM. My Dell currently has 2GB RAM and it can take 4GB. Looks like I need PC2-4200/5300/6400 DDR2 SDRAM DIMMs. This site recommends getting one 4GB DIMM.
• Add two 1.5TB drives to be setup as a single RAID1 1.5TB drive.
• Run barebones Linux as the host OS, set up the disks using software RAID, and install VMware Workstation on top of that.
• Set up three VMs:
  • File server (256MB RAM, 1TB data) running OpenFiler.
  • Ubuntu orkstation
  • Windows workstation