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CAN I STILL INSTALL FREENAS IF MY OLD PC HAS 3GB OF RAM ???

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7 minutes ago, hardik29 said:

CAN I STILL INSTALL FREENAS IF MY OLD PC HAS 3GB OF RAM ???

YES !!!

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You should be able to yes. Your experience may not be the greatest but it should still work.

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you should start by turning off caps lock..

 

but yes, you can, it'll most likely not perform optimally but it wont absolutely crawl either.

 

that said, dont touch stuff like ZFS, or its advanced features.

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I'd go for NAS4FREE as its a forked version designed for lower ram amounts. Worked well for me

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How old? IIRC FreeNAS is x64 only now, so an old PC (3GB of RAM might signal a 32bit system) might not work.

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IT WILL "WORK" JUST DO NOT EXPECT GOOD PERFORMANCE. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RUN PLEX ON IT AND PROTOCOLS LIKE SMB MAY GO SLOWER AS WELL.

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On 3/3/2019 at 12:09 AM, Acedia said:

How old? IIRC FreeNAS is x64 only now, so an old PC (3GB of RAM might signal a 32bit system) might not work.

3GB RAM should be well into the 64 bit era. they may have had 32 bit windows installed, but they supported 64.

(or to put a timeframe on it, about 2004 is when 64 bit gained traction, and at that time "gigabytes" of ram was considered high end.)

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