Best practice for installing additional Memory

[Burador]

Hi All,

I'm pretty new to FreeNAS and in using NAS in general. My FreeNAS system has been up and running for about a year only. My hardware is pretty modest although I plan to upgrade it gradually.

I got an additional 16GB of ECC-RAM for my system to make my total memory to 32gb. However, I'm a bit reluctant to install it immediately.

Question: Do I need to run a diagnostics test for my new RAM first before installing it my system?

Hope you can help me find the way. I already tried searching for it in this forum. Thanks.

Regards!

 

[nojohnny101]

It is generally recommended to run memtest on your memory for at least 24 hours. Some more cautious people run that test for days and others run it for a set number of passes.

Up to you, but at any rate, it is strongly recommended to run memtest as it will give you peace of mind that your memory is ready for use, especially considering how important RAM is to FreeNAS (ZFS).

 

[Burador]

Thanks for the reply. Will run Memtest then. Thanks again.