Home Server Project.

I've decided to take my old gaming laptop and turn it into a Nas server /VM testing rig. I have never done this before and am looking for suggestions. I'm taking inspiration from my Linux User & Development magazine issue 155 titled Open Source your Storage. While this issue does give a good tutorial using Linux it does not detail everything or other options or issues I may not know about at this time.

Here are the specs I am working with.
2.4GHz Intel Core i7-3630QM Processor
16GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM
750GB Hard Drive and 128GB SSD

Any thoughts or suggestions would be welcome.

Regards
mgmguy1

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Hawk321

Depends what you really want.
As a permanently storage, your system MAY waste to much energy (costly) and your disks are not in a raid (risky). For VM's, you could run 3-6 2 core and 2 gb VM (carefull with the cpu heat).
Hmm...perhaps you install a PROXMOX on it to play around with VMs and LXC