Using a machine like this just as a NAS is a bit of waste. It’s a full blown PC that would work very nicely as a home server for Jellyfin etc. The RAM will limit the utility, though.
ZFS is powerful for reliability and data protection. It is designed to hold lots of data and to tolerate hardware failures. One key aspect of ZFS is that it caches data in ram for reads so having lots of ram speeds up read performance.
I was just thinking “bah ssd, that’ll be expensive” but a quick search on Amazon suggests prices have dropped quite a bit.
12Gb soldered on memory though. That’s a shame.
That’s quite the RAM for a NAS, no? I think mine has 512MB.
Using a machine like this just as a NAS is a bit of waste. It’s a full blown PC that would work very nicely as a home server for Jellyfin etc. The RAM will limit the utility, though.
Depends on your usecase. This could very well be more than just a NAS.
Well yes but it is a NAS not a homelab right?
Again, not necessarily. I have something very similar I use as a server.
ZFS needs a lot of ram
For those zettabyte SSDs 😁 ?
I don’t know what it is except the acronym, why whould someone use ZFS?
ZFS is powerful for reliability and data protection. It is designed to hold lots of data and to tolerate hardware failures. One key aspect of ZFS is that it caches data in ram for reads so having lots of ram speeds up read performance.
Thanks!
Yeah, my NAS uses 3GB out of my 16GB total. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it use more than 5GB.
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You are probably right, mine is from 2013 😰
I was recently told that 16GB wasn’t much for ZFS…
Maybe it isn’t bad if you have good SSDs