Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

[Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land>]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 12:07:32AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 	I absolutely agree, no matter what the file system, I would
> > 	definitely up the memory to the 16GB max, especially if this is to
> > 	be a media server.
>
> Unless you're serving some quite demanding clients, I'd expect 16GB in
> an NAS to be a complete waste of money.
>
> IOW it all depends about what kind of NAS you're designing, and with
> what kind of connectivity and software.
>
> Most commercial "home NAS" boxes have much less than 16GB of RAM, for
> example (e.g. the `Asustor AS5304T` described by pcmag as "best for
> power users" for 2020 has 4GB of RAM).

There's certainly a perception that, for using ZFS or BTRFS, >4GiB RAM
is required. I don't know whether that's actually true in practise. It's
one reason I avoid both those filesystems for machines I want to Just
Work. Part of the problem is one person's NAS is another person's media
server, with radically different requirements.


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