does freenas benefit from a larger thumb drive?

[matlock]

The title says it all.
Just wondering if there are any benefits to having freenas installed on a larger drive? From the documentation I read- it doesnt seem like it.

I see that the rule of thumb is 1gb of ram for every tb of storage- any rules of thumb for the freenas installation?

-matlock

 

[ProtoSD]

Hey Matlock,

4GB flash drives are probably a little better, not because the extra 2GB is used, but because some of the 2GB drives out there are a little less and FreeNAS pushes it right to the edge so when you flash them they seem to flash ok but arent' quite big enough. The partitioning of FreeNAS is fixed (4 primary partitions) and compiled in at the source code level. Probably at some point down the road the image size may grow, so having a 4GB drive can't hurt, but for now the extra 2GB of a 4GB drive is unused and not able to be partitioned.