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Old Mar 19, 2012, 08:08 PM   #5
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Small NAS devices are nice for their small footprint, but the inexpensive ones are notoriously slow.
I would do as you plan and repurpose the old computer, put a large drive in it and tell it to go to sleep when there is no LAN activity (Wake on LAN).
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