Can't install TrueNAS (Scale OR Core)

[NugentS]

I hope you have a decent internet connection - or you live in a large hotel like house.

 

[WoisWoi]

The NAS will be wired with a 10G Ethernet cable (on a 10G switch) to the media center and my router, the NAS will be there to store and eventually host a secondary small media center, and I have an optical fiber with 1G uplink and about 6/7 Gbps in download.

Users are outside of my network obviously and are accessing the media center through internet. Does it respond to your question?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Users are outside of my network obviously and are accessing the media center through internet. Does it respond to your question?

Yes. How fast is that internet connection of yours? You probably won't have to worry about NAS performance ever.

 

[WoisWoi]

Yes. How fast is that internet connection of yours? You probably won't have to worry about NAS performance ever.

I told you ;)
1 Gbps uplink (and maximum 7 Gbps down).

 

[WoisWoi]

So how much RAM do you think I'll need (minimum and ideal) ?

 

[Etorix]

It is a problem because of the capacity of my motherboard and also because of the price, if I want to buy 4x 64 gigabyte of RAM (DDR5 ECC) it would cost me more than a thousand euros, and i'm not even sure it will work, if it does, I'll have only 192 GB instead of 256 GB.

For the RAM amount you're looking at, go for (second-hand) DDR4 RDIMM. You do not need a last generation CPU for a NAS.

 

[WoisWoi]

For the RAM amount you're looking at, go for (second-hand) DDR4 RDIMM. You do not need a last generation CPU for a NAS.

It will be usefull for transcoding if I host a PMS on the NAS...

Edit : Also, L2ARC (with an NVMe) is recommended from what I've understood ?

 

[WoisWoi]

Do I really need so much RAM ? If it's only for the cache, I'm really not sure that it will be of any use to me.

 

[NugentS]

Well you are limited by your 1Gb uplink.
Stick with 128MB

 

[WoisWoi]

The brand new NAS is already at 58 % ahah :)

I retrieved some of my data (stored on Dropbox), but some sacrifice had to be made :

 

[Whattteva]

Memory controller is on the CPU so it could be the issue. Highly unlikely but still a possibility.

I actually just sent in an RMA for a CPU last week. Was running fine for almost 3 years (just barely under warranty period) and then it decides not to keep doing kernel panic no matter if I tried to boot FreeBSD/Linux/Windows on it.