About 120 GB’s on Pentium 4, 1 GB. IDE 160 GB HDD drive. With 4 user accounts. I did each one in turn.
The Live image crashed half way into the backup, maybe because I left FF open on 1 GB on ram.
I had to change the permissions on the drive to 777 to have access to the data. It can never be used again in a NC server. That’s ok.
I have a 1 GBit backbone (sorta) 4 * 8 port switches at various places in my house. I dont wire back to one point and because its a rental and I am not allowed to drill holes in the walls.
The Pentium 4 era had a network speed 100 Mbit consumer devices using the PCI bus.
I started in the coax UTP era installing cabling running at 10 Mbit networks.
The time taken to install the new NC server on a 12 year old I5 with 8 GB ram and 2 TB HDD. I was not very long to do, I used the snap install method.
I synced the data from my backup one user at a time.
I also synced + added 386 GB with 150 k images. This I think this causes the journal process in linux on the HDD into high use. I have the same problem with my single drive NC 25 I5 server.
Hope that helps.