Specs Question

[Nano Adam]

Are these specs good for Freenas? Running a Windows 10 VM and storage pools. 

 

 

And, what would be my ideal config for the Windows VM, if possible.

 

Thanks! 

[Shimejii]

What exactly are you trying to do with the VM?

[Nano Adam]

1 minute ago, Shimejii said:

What exactly are you trying to do with the VM?

Run Microsoft Office Suite and browser not much. 

[Shimejii]

Just now, ammar_code said:

Run Microsoft Office Suite and browser not much. 

Youd benefit far more with an SSD over that HDD

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, ammar_code said:

Run Microsoft Office Suite and browser not much. 

freenas isn't a good hypervisor, id run proxmox, or exsi, or hyper-v if you want to run vms.

 

Why only one drive, and a small one for a nas?

 

Wifi won't matter.

 

Why run office and brower in a vm, id run that on your workstation, not a vm on the server.

[Jarsky]

This should be merged with your Quick Question thread, theres no reason to have 2 about the same build. 

 

For VM's, maybe go UnRAID if you want something flexible with good VM support. 

Why would you want to run Storage Spaces inside of a VM? Or are you adding more drives and making them VHD's/passing the disks through?

[Nano Adam]

4 minutes ago, Jarsky said:

This should be merged with your Quick Question thread, theres no reason to have 2 about the same build. 

 

For VM's, maybe go UnRAID if you want something flexible with good VM support. 

Why would you want to run Storage Spaces inside of a VM? Or are you adding more drives and making them VHD's/passing the disks through?

Thanks for your help! The decision of how to use the PC will be made by my dad so I was really confused on getting the right specs and all. 

 

Thanks everyone who helped me! 

 

If someone can move this to the test section, it will be great!