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Rescued the drives from the trash, all functional, less than 1 year old. I am looking to set up a multimedia server and NAS, but I need hardware suggestions. Looking to keep the spend here under $600. The synology drive bays are giving me some sticker shock. Was planning on using TrueNas.

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[–] dev_all_the_ops@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

8gb is bare minimum for ZFS. 32gb would be great. ZFS will use all of it.

I would use a minimum of 3 drives because then it is easy to expand later (opposed to starting with 1 or 2).

You could start with the 16tb drives if you want. Personally I like to save power and every spinning drive takes 5-15 watts of power.

[–] AdmiralPoopyDiaper@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Somewhat of a misnomer. Yes, ZFS likes RAM, and yes it’ll use a lot if you let it. So the moar the better, obviously. But to suggest anything under 8GB is unworkable is a bit in the dramatic side. You may not get optimal performance in all cases but the system will function well enough to saturate a Gbps LAN and honestly if your budget is $600 with some found rust I doubt OP’s requirements are to stream several full bitrate 4K videos simultaneously.