[Cialug] NAS Boxen

[David Champion]

If you use the de-duplication option on ZFS, then yes, you want more RAM.
You can run with de-duplication turned off if you have less RAM.

-dc

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Claus Niesen <cniesen at gmx.net> wrote:

>
> On 7/15/2012 Paul said:
> > On 7/16/2012 1:59 PM, David Champion wrote:
> > > I've been pretty happy with FreeNAS using ZFS RAID.
> >
> > Ditto that.
> >
> > -PG
>
> I've been eying FreeNas especially since I need larger and larger
> partitions for backup, and that's at home. :{  Currently I'm using an older
> computer, Pentium 3 698MHz, 512MB RAM with 6.4GB (for OS), 80GB, 250GB and
> 1.5TB drives. The 1.5TB drive needed to be split into three partitions to
> avoid OpenBSD system limitations.
>
> If I understand things correctly I still have limitations with FreeNAS as
> ZFS really needs 8GB of RAM.
> --
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Cialug mailing list
> Cialug at cialug.org
> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
>