
Originally Posted by
barry2811
I have very similar hardware to you powering my NAS which I use for backups. I have an Athlon X2 4200 and 1GB of RAM.
I used to use FreeNAS, but as of version 8.x (current), the hardware specs went through the roof, and useful features got culled (some of been added back since), but it seems to be a project aimed more at high-end professional applications.
I now use the continuation project of FreeNAS 7.x, which is called NAS4Free. It has all the options you'd ever want and hardware support is excellent. You can get an iso which you can burn and use as a Live CD to try, you can then install from that CD if you want to.