An ancient laptop as a home server

[Soft Wumbo]

what 2 cores gen 2 intel + 2gb ram + 500gb hdd can do as a home server?

[DevaVictrix]

What do you hope to do with the server? I’d imagine 2gb of ram would make it difficult.

Noip is free… as is a cloudflare tunnel, if you need outside access that is!

[Cathulhu]

Postat inițial de ChickenTacos:

I apologize, I did not specify!

Games. MAME roms, GEN roms, SNES roms, etc, etc. Get an SSD.

Nothing that requires a server.

[ChickenTacos]

Postat inițial de Cathulhu:

Postat inițial de ChickenTacos:

I apologize, I did not specify!

Games. MAME roms, GEN roms, SNES roms, etc, etc. Get an SSD.

Nothing that requires a server.

Ever been to a buffet? You know, all-you-can-eat? Think about that lil, ole laptop setup at a house, full of family, where everyone can play from the cloud.

Just a small idea for a small, lil ole lappy.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

A low end laptop will not make a good EMU. You need a decent Desktop i7 class CPU for that.

[ChickenTacos]

Postat inițial de Bad 💀 Motha:

A low end laptop will not make a good EMU. You need a decent Desktop i7 class CPU for that.

Perhaps, but, what about the lower-end pixel games such as those of yore. Nintendo NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, CD, etc. I think it could actually be a real thing. A REAL THING, OP!!! OP!!! Give it a try!

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes older games through an Emu app would most likely be doable on okder systems such as that Laptop. For a server I hardly see a point since you'll be very limited with how many drives could be connected at once. You sure as heck don't want to be LAN file sharing off of a system that's just using USB drives, or more drives via a USB hub. The transfer speeds would be dog crap slow.

There are tons of options and price ranges for a NAS box you can put 4 or 5 SATA drives into and if need be, configure as a RAID. A NAS could easily be used as a Server via a Laptop or something such as Raspberry Pi

[Pepe]

Could you be more explicit about "2 cores gen 2 intel"? It could be multiple things:
- second gen dual core: Pentium D 9xx (Presler)
- second gen Core Duo: Core 2 Duo (Merom/Penryn)
- second gen Core i: Core i 2xxx (Sandy Bridge)

For the first two categories category, I think their best use is for retro gaming, install the operating system and the games of that era. Sure you can run a music/radio/voice chat server or a v low resource application, like an chat bot (e.g. trivia bot) or a weather station, anything that would work on a Raspberry Pi 1/2/3.

With an Intel Core i processor you could do many things. If you have a Core i5 or Core i7 you also have Hyper-Threading which boosts by about 30% the multitasking work. Upgrade the RAM to 4GiB, that's essential for installing a 64bit OS, all apps will consume more memory than on a 32bit system. A SATA SSD would also bring new life on that laptop. On a Sandy Bridge motherboard you should have SATA 3, that means your SSD would work at full speed.

Anyway, OP, please post the actual laptop platform you have. That will narrow down the options you have, rather than us making all kind of assumptions.

[A&A]

Postat inițial de Pepe:

Could you be more explicit about "2 cores gen 2 intel"? It could be multiple things:
- second gen dual core: Pentium D 9xx (Presler)
- second gen Core Duo: Core 2 Duo (Merom/Penryn)
- second gen Core i: Core i 2xxx (Sandy Bridge)

That doesn't mean you can't answer. Pentium D mobile processor does not exist. If it's a core duo, you can't do much with them. If Intel Core which is more likely to be, you can still find a use case somewhere.

[Pepe]

Postat inițial de A&A:

Postat inițial de Pepe:

Could you be more explicit about "2 cores gen 2 intel"? It could be multiple things:
- second gen dual core: Pentium D 9xx (Presler)
- second gen Core Duo: Core 2 Duo (Merom/Penryn)
- second gen Core i: Core i 2xxx (Sandy Bridge)

That doesn't mean you can't answer. Pentium D mobile processor does not exist. If it's a core duo, you can't do much with them. If Intel Core which is more likely to be, you can still find a use case somewhere.

I've answered 9 minutes ago when I edited my post. Pentium D laptops existed. NO! THEY DIDN'T EXIST! I WAS TOTALLY WRONG. OP did say it's a laptop, not what kind of processor it had. There were desktop CPUs in laptops, just not Pentium D.

[A&A]

Postat inițial de Pepe:

I've answered 9 minutes ago when I edited my post. Pentium D laptops existed. OP said it's a laptop, not what kind of processor it had.

Edited 10 minutes ago... Anyway, name a single Pentium D used specially for a laptop. All of them are LGA775. I know there were laptops with such socket, but ≈2005 to have just 2GB of RAM doesn't make sense, when it comes to mobile workstations.

[Pepe]

Postat inițial de A&A:

Postat inițial de Pepe:

I've answered 9 minutes ago when I edited my post. Pentium D laptops existed. OP said it's a laptop, not what kind of processor it had.

Edited 6 minutes ago... Anyway, name a single Pentium D used specially for a laptop.

I edit my posts as much as I want to improve them. As I'll do now. When I've seen your post it was in the first minute of yours, and my edited post was nine minutes old. If it took you more than nine minutes just to police I didn't answer the poorly made question from OP, it's your issue.

I don't know everything by heart. I couldn't find any Pentium D laptops. Pentium 4 was on laptops, I guess Pentium D didn't make it due to the heat. You are right! YES! I'll edit my post again.