I just turned my 5 year old Core 2 Duo Thinkpad into my home server. I was able to put two 1TB drives into it. (Using a laptop has the advantage of builtin sc

I just turned my 5 year old Core 2 Duo Thinkpad into my home server. I was able to put two 1TB drives into it. (Using a laptop has the advantage of builtin screen, keyboard, wifi and wired networking, and most importantly a builtin UPS.) It replaced my previous server (single core AMD from ~2005.) Most noticeably power consumption has dropped from 75W to 14W. I need 16GB of RAM in order to work with development data sets, and the old Thinkpad chipset can't take more than 4GB. Heck my brand new one is limited to 32GB, so that is probably what will cause my next upgrade. (I'll omit my rant about laptop screens getting worse.)