Lo ram nas

[the gamer that is bad]

I have a system with an old cpu 2 core I don’t know which one tough and it has 4gb ddr2 are there any softwares that can run on that little ram I was thinking freenas but all my research shows that free as needs 8 or more gb of ram.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

What are you going to use it for?
Freenas is 4gb+1gb/TB iirc, so 4gb would not be enough.
If your going to use it for media streaming, just use Plex. That can run on 2gb.

[the gamer that is bad]

9 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

What are you going to use it for?
Freenas is 4gb+1gb/TB iirc, so 4gb would not be enough.
If your going to use it for media streaming, just use Plex. That can run on 2gb.

I’m just going to try to use it as a nas to put some old files I don’t want on my main pc taking up storage

[Kilrah]

You can just install bog standard ubuntu and make a samba share...

[Jarsky]

11 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Freenas is 4gb+1gb/TB iirc, so 4gb would not be enough.

Pretty much false, FreeNAS will happily run on a 4GB system for even a moderate size array. ARC will only use a % of your physical memory by default, and for the majority of home users you wont notice the performance hit of resilvering, dedup, etc...If your storage is static, then again even more reason you don't need a stack of ram. 

 

11 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

If your going to use it for media streaming, just use Plex. That can run on 2gb.

I'd be wary of this. Audio in Plex is transcoded by the CPU regardless, as well as library crawls and other features like intro detection are very CPU intensive, so such an old CPU could run pretty poor unless some features are disabled. Also if he needs any video transcoding, such an old CPU would struggle with any content above 720p, and any iGPU wouldnt be suitable as won't support x264. Would need a Plex Pass and discrete GPU for video transcoding. 

 

[silentdragon95]

For a low spec system like that I'd suggest trying OpenMediaVault. It's basically Linux Debian (which Ubuntu is also based on) except with everything you need for a NAS already pre-installed and there are a bunch of plugins for various things as well. I used to run it on my old Core2Duo NAS box and it always worked well.