Hardware for a FreeBSD Samba server

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Hello all. I previously used Linux mint, but I have been tasked by my GF to share out all of our files to the 5 computers we have in our household. 3 Macs, 2 windows computers. One which I dual boot with Linux mint. My windows is only for games...don't judge me :P

So I was told I should use FreeBSD/Samba to head up this task. Cool. So I am in the market for a new computer. I don't want to use any of the ones I already have as they have their own roles and i want a dedicated media server. So, I'm on the fence about whether or not I should go ahead and build one of get a premade computer. I know FreeBSD can run great on any system. I just am questionable as to the expansion capabilities on a premade. I want to setup a software raid5.

Any suggestions?
 
If you plan on using ZFS, get something with a lot of RAM (4+ GB) and AMD64. If not (i.e. just going to use UFS), pretty much anything will do.
 
Does it HAVE to be an AMD64? I mean, I got this measly intel i3 (3.1) Is that good? :stud I kid I kid!!!!
 
DutchDaemon said:
If only that had been discussed on these forums before.
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And there went another perfectly-good sarcasm meter. Do you know what an autoranging HM496 with true RMS sarcasm in megamocks and the optional tauntometer costs?
 
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