Mageia for my home server

[rmcellig]

I have an old pc from 2008 that I would like to use as a file server. It has 4 GB of ram. Would mageia be good as my file server software compared to debian server and Ubuntu server. I have used mageia before and like it. I have 2 external 12TB drives with mechanical drives.

Your advice and recommendations would serve me well.

I have various interal drives i can use even though my pc only accepts one drive.

[morgano]

Should be no problem as long as you think the hardware is reliable. (that said year alone dont say much about capacity) I had a file server with Mageia some years ago, on a small form factor dual core 1,6 GHz (IIRC) atom main board, 4GB RAM, and some disks. Sharing by NFS. Had owncloud server too, but just to try. Used a light weight desktop. Encryption on data drives, system on a small SSD.

[rmcellig]

I have an internal 2TB mechanical drive. I don't have a spare SSD drive at the moment.