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somewhatdamaged

somewhatdamaged

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Just been given a free Dell Precision from work, with a Xeon W3503 and 8GB of RAM

Was going to put a couple of 2TB hard drives in, but is the hardware decent enough?

I've already got backups etc, but wanted to use Freenas for a while as heard great things about ZFS

Thanks
 
somewhatdamaged said:
Just been given a free Dell Precision from work, with a Xeon W3503 and 8GB of RAM

Was going to put a couple of 2TB hard drives in, but is the hardware decent enough?
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Plenty. The only thing you might start to struggle with are very CPU heavy tasks, but as a home NAS box it's overkill, if anything.
 
PurplePhoenix said:
Seems fine to run ZFS, just don't go crazy on the hard drives. 1GB ram for 1TB
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With deduplication, yes and possibly more but without dedup (and I recommend not using dedup) that's kind of a partial truth.

OP's box is ample for filesharing. Maybe Plex and other apps might put strain on the CPU. FreeNAS is very easy to use though and all the benefits of zfs.

FreeNAS requirements seem to have increased in recent years, but if you were to DIY and forgo the fancy web UI then FreeBSD uses minimal resources.
 
If you're just using it for backups then your spec is fine, no need for ecc and no need for more ram. I assume you're going to mirror the two disks?
 
To echo everyone else. Hardware is prefect fine.

My home server started life with a Sempron X2 190 and ran FreeNAS as well as 2-3 other Virtual Machines along side it no problem.
 
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