[Cialug] Decent diy nas box

[Scott Yates]

​I think ZFS in general just likes ram.  If you listen to the FreeNAS guys,
16 is bare minimum even without de-duplication, but of course that depends
on number of drives, amount of data, etc...​

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:06 AM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yep, if you want to turn on de-duplication in FreeNAS you'll probably need
> more RAM.
>
> For a relatively small volume without de-duplication, 8gb would be OK.
>
> -dc
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I would mention as well, that FreeNAS really likes ram, so more is
> better.
> >  8)
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > These are pretty great deals as well:
> > > https://unixsurplus.com/products/gpu-server-1u-
> > > supermicro-3-bay-lff-server?variant=41179135444
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 9:48 AM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> I've used an older model of these Dell T series servers for FreeNAS
> > >> servers. This one has a quad core xeon and 8gb RAM, has 4 HD bays.
> > >>
> > >> https://computers.woot.com/offers/dell-poweredge-t30-intel-
> > >> xeon-mt-server?ref=eml_w_nd_3_tl&ref_=pe_3185080_247127410
> > >>
> > >> -dc
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