Real quick question

[Elo Gaming]

FreeNas.org says that freenas 11 needs 8 gb of ram and 8 gb of memory. Is that true?

[PorkishPig]

23 minutes ago, Elo Gaming said:

FreeNas.org says that freenas 11 needs 8 gb of ram and 8 gb of memory. Is that true?

Give this a read.

 

[leadeater]

40 minutes ago, Elo Gaming said:

FreeNas.org says that freenas 11 needs 8 gb of ram and 8 gb of memory. Is that true?

Yes, no, maybe.

 

Depends on what kind of performance you're after but you don't need to load up on a ton of ram unlike the myriad of guides online say. 8GB shouldn't be that expensive unless you're going with a new parts build, used DDR3 ECC RDIMM is rather cheap.

[Windows7ge]

Take 8GB with a grain of salt. I believed this at a time and the fable that you need 1GB of RAM per TB of storage. Both are false but it depends on what kind of performance you're looking for.

 

Right now my freeNAS server is running the S.M.A.R.T., SMB/CIFS, SSH, & UPS services. It has an active 8 drive RAID 6 and 8 additional  independent drives with zvols all tied into a windows virtual machine. Not including the Memory allocated to the VM, and not including Archived Memory being used by the CIFS share. The system is using 1.7GB to run the OS and necessary services. So no. 8GB isn't a minimum requirement. More of a recommended minimum.

[ProjectBox153]

8GB? Ha. I run it on a system with 3Gb (sometimes 2 if I need to steal some). Works just fine. 

[KirbyTech]

It will run fine on 2gb no issues if you have a smaller setup but larger ones like freenas is now made for require it so that is why you see the 8GB min but really should say 4gb min and 16gb rec