XigmaNAS

Hello,

I'll buy a PC to install NAS4FREE and need to know what the minimum and maximum specification of hardware should I buy to avoid to spend too much unnecessarily.

I've been thinking of buying a motherboard with QuadCore processor, but will the NAS4FREE will benefit from all this capacity? If it is not necessary I have other cheaper motherboards on the market and so would save a little for use in hard drives.

Thank you.

Sérgio Pereira

it depends on your requirements.

simple nas a skylake celeron is enough.
zfs: get ecc ram with a motherboard that supports it.
ram. for zfs minimum of 8gb. more is better.

b0ssman wrote:it depends on your requirements.

simple nas a skylake celeron is enough.
zfs: get ecc ram with a motherboard that supports it.
ram. for zfs minimum of 8gb. more is better.

Thank b0ssman for your reply.
If I buy a motherboard with quadcore processor, NAS4FREE will take full advantage or there really is no need?

Thank you.

for simple nas filesharing it will normally only use 1 core.

perhaps take a HP Microserver into your consideration

I sugest a HP Proliant for only 190€: http://www.pccomponentes.com/hp_prolian ... t_4gb.html


PD: You can buy simmilar hardware on ebay at simmilar prices.

4 cores [& HT] is over kill unless you plan on lots jails, services, and users

my I3 [4 threads] will use all 4 but the total load is seldom over 50%

the 2 core non HT AMD is faster on simple file transfers

18% faster clock
30% faster transfer
despite no HT

Hello,

For the minimum, I know: HP Vectra VL, PII 400MHz, 768MB RAM, embedded system on a CF card, running 24/7 since 2008 (FreeNAS 0.68.5) actually Nas4Free 10.2.0.2.2433. The case is filled up with 4TB of HDD, no jail, no VM, no JBOD, no RAID (but possible), no ZFS, only running DAAP, UPnP, SMB, FTP, NFS, RSYNC, UPS and web-server.

A more modern minimum: Raspberry Pi2 (Nas4Free 10.2.0.2.2258) running the same services as the HP box.

For the maximum: the sky's the limit! so why bother?

Ciao @+

N4F Good Box;

64 bit
low power consumption
8 Gb ECC RAM
Large well ventilated case.
enough sata ports to start with
expansion buss room to grow

the bad
unusual hardware, chip sets etc
specialty case, board, psu