4TB hard drive - no UFS format option?

[steve_in_tassie]

I'm a newbie setting up a first time Nas4free installation. I have installed a new 4TB WD purple drive into a HP Proliant N36L microserver (Nas4free is on an old 80GB drive). When I try and format the 4TB drive, the only option available to me appears to be ZFS. I was expecting there would be a UFS option?

May not be an issue (ie could use ZFS - would need to learn how as I haven't used that filesystem before) but I am a bit concerned that from what I have read ZFS needs a decent amount of RAM (I have 4GB) and I am not sure whether the Athlon 1.3Ghz processor is underpowered for running ZFS.

Is there some reason I don't get a UFS option when formatting?
Is a low speed Athlon processor and 4GB enough to run ZFS? I have 3 other drives in there alongside the WD purple.

Thanks in advance.

[steve_in_tassie]

Tried a clean install - got the same problem still. The only format option offered for a 4TB purple drive seems to be ZFS which is not what I want to use (I want simple, non-RAID and drives spinning down if not in use). Unfortunately this is a deal breaker for me so moving to a different OS/NAS.

[cookiemonster]

I'm pretty sure I had something similar. I think I had to first in "Disks > Management " scan or add (+) the device. Then once the system knew about it, had to then go to "HDD Format" and UFS was one of the options. Mind you, my HDD was different size(smaller), but my guess is that is that that is not relevant.

[Grey]

Better to use ZFS instead of UFS. You can create "simple, non-RAID" ZFS Pool from 1 disk. But do not enable deduplication! Deduplication is consuming RAM & CPU.