Hey Guys,
I've tried searching but found this information a little difficult to track down. I'm just wondering how dependant FreeNAS is on the performance of the boot drive, and in fact how much storage is needed for the boot drive? My options include an SSD, USB stick, or re-using an older 2.5" HDD. I figure FreeNAS only uses the boot drive to boot from. Does FreeNAS use the boot drive for paging or anything else that may affect performance besides boot times?
Also while I'm at it, I know I should have a gigabyte of RAM per terabyte of storage, but how important is CPU speed. I ask because I'm thinking of running FreeNAS on an Intel G2020T as included with the HP Microserver Gen 8. This is a fairly low-end processor, so wondering whether it would be much of bottleneck.
I intend to run FreeNAS at home for centralised storage and backup for 3 or 4 clients.
Cheers
I've tried searching but found this information a little difficult to track down. I'm just wondering how dependant FreeNAS is on the performance of the boot drive, and in fact how much storage is needed for the boot drive? My options include an SSD, USB stick, or re-using an older 2.5" HDD. I figure FreeNAS only uses the boot drive to boot from. Does FreeNAS use the boot drive for paging or anything else that may affect performance besides boot times?
Also while I'm at it, I know I should have a gigabyte of RAM per terabyte of storage, but how important is CPU speed. I ask because I'm thinking of running FreeNAS on an Intel G2020T as included with the HP Microserver Gen 8. This is a fairly low-end processor, so wondering whether it would be much of bottleneck.
I intend to run FreeNAS at home for centralised storage and backup for 3 or 4 clients.
Cheers
