Greetings

[yvrdarb]

I am just gathering my last few bits of hardware and going to try an install.

For my light use personal NAS, I am going with a HP DC7900 USFF with 4 gigs ram and two WD black 750 gig.

I am hoping that it will be enough RAM if I don't go with ZFS deduplication, Active Directory or phpVirtualBox.

Any comments?

Also wondering how far away 10.X is? I am considering going with the beta from the start.

Thanks,

Brad

 

[BigDave]

@yvrdarb
Current version of FreeNAS requires a MINIMUM of 8GB of RAM!
Your hardware will run Windows, but not FreeNAS!
Choose another operating system or get proper hardware for the latest version of FreeNAS.
See the link in my signature for more information.
It does not matter about the more advanced features, your hardware will not run the basics!

 

[Mirfster]

Agreed, I wouldn't even consider that system for FreeNas. Doesn't even support ECC Ram either.

 

[Kevin Horton]

If you must use this hardware, and you care about your data, then you should find another file server OS.

If you must use FreeNAS, and you care about your data, then you must chose hardware that is appropriate to the task.

If you don't care whether you lose your data or not, you don't care how much time you waste chasing issues caused by the wrong hardware, and you don't mind pretty much everyone on this forum saying the cause of all your inevitable future problems are the poor choice of hardware, then FreeNAS is the way to go.

 

[DrKK]

2x750GB is such a modest box. I mean literally, it can hardly be called a file server. Maybe an enterprise-class NAS like FreeNAS is just too much sauce for this application, sir.

In any case, no one in the FreeNAS community will recommend your hardware for any FreeNAS application whatsoever.