Using old computer

[Jeff Pipes]

I have a MSi 880gm-e41 motherboard with an AMD Athlon II x4 640 processor.
Will these work for building a FreeNAS machine?

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

It will probably run, but it's a desktop-class system and thus not well suited for FreeNAS. Take a look at the Hardware Recommendations Guide.

 

[Jailer]

https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/hardware-recommendations-guide.12/

http://www.freenas.org/hardware-requirements/

 

[SCS]

It will work but its not ideal.

I'd start off by saying 8GB of ram is the absolute minimum and personally I don't run with less the 16GB after seeing what a HUGE improvement it made over 8GB.

Also bear in mind that consumer products aren't designed for 24/7 usages as you'd see in a NAS. On the other hand I've had absolutely no issues with my system running on a cheap AMD 350T or something like that. Its cheap, low power and i had it kicking around.

I set it up and its run flawlessly for 5 or so years now with no ECC ram as well.

Many on here will tell you I'm playing with a can of gas in one hand and a lighter in the other, and they would be absolutely right.

I have weekly scrubs, I backup my data to an external BSD non ZFS backup server.

I also memory tested my ram for 30 days before deploying it to have better peace of mind. Good things as after 9 days one stick started throwing errors and I RMA'd.

So will it work, yes, but understand your out if spec, most on here will not make a great deal if effort since you chose to break all the rules if things go sideways.

After having suck great luck with my current system I'm actually in the process of building a proper system, just wading for Intel via Amazon to ship my e5-1620v4 and I can put it together.

So consider the negatives before you play with fire.

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