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I recently got myself a microserver (HP G1610t with 10GB RAM) and I've installed ESXi/vSphere 5.5 onto it and currently have W7 (4GB RAM) and Server 2012 R2 (2GB RAM) running on it with ok performance. I want to also use this server as a NAS and I would like it to be independent of the other...

Thanks for the responses, I may just save the money and upgrade this machine unless I see something then. I was speaking with someone today with a newer laptop who was having similar issues to me so the SSD/RAM may help this as I suspected (at least the SSD can be reused and the RAM is cheap...

I have an old laptop I use when I'm away from home but I'm finding it limited particularly when it comes to VMs (I'm either limited to 1 and/or it's relatively slow even for a VM) and I'm not sure whether it's worth upgrading it or replacing it entirely. Current spec: Intel i7 740qm 1.73Ghz 4GB...