May 27, 20179 yr 32gb in mine (4 x8gb sticks DDR4) can upgrade MB to 512 but not for a looooooong time
May 28, 20179 yr 32gb (8*4gb) because its the maximum the board supports and it was a good price on eBay (£30).
May 30, 20179 yr 16GB Fully automated Plex server/A couple VMs for testing/application running/Personal game servers. unRAID runs them all flawlessly and I could honestly get by with less RAM if I had to. It's quite freeing.
June 7, 20179 yr 32GB although I may upgrade to 64GB. I've like to leave plex transcoding in ram, but generally its for running multiple vms and hoping I don't run into too many cpu bottlenecks with oversubscription of cores.
June 9, 20179 yr 48gB of DDR3 ECC RAM. I have an automated media configuration (Ombi + Sonarr + Radarr + NowShowing + Jackett + Deluge + Plex) which is fairly light on the ram, and I have ~20 vms open a most times. Granted, I don't need to have them open, but I always do.
July 22, 20178 yr Don't laugh... My two main servers on 24/7 used for adding to, editing and compressing video and active content sharing only have 1GB RAM each (total only 28TB of storage between the two). They work great and are really only file storage, and all work is done on other computers. Multiple drives are almost always being accessed either by me and my working data munching computers, or by family remotely watching content remotely somewhere using Plex. Plex is also running an a separate server looking at my unRAID shares. My main ARCHIVE server is a bit heftier, and much newer. It has 8GB of RAM, has 30TB of storage, and is also on 24/7, and is also seen by my Plex server. NOTE: I only use Plex outside the home, and always use XBMC or KODI internally. My other less used specialty backup servers I think are now all up to 1 GB of RAM, but some may have less. They are only powered up when I need to access much older data, files, and machine drive images and such. Many of these are not x64 capable either. I do not like upgrading, and feel if it is working well let it keep running as it is. If I need more, I look at what my future/new need is, and usually just build a new machine to add to the pool/farm. I did pick up a new (actually old surplus) server that has 4 CPUs, and I think 32GB of RAM, but I have not had a chance to really play much with it yet. I was planning on setting it up with all the new bells and whistles and run a Plex server on it after I get a new unRAID key for it.
July 23, 20178 yr 12GB of DDR2, why? Because I had 4 and that was not enough to run a VM + some containers. And it's cheap. @electron286 You should check-out PKC: https://github.com/croneter/PlexKodiConnect
July 25, 20178 yr Not to sidetrack this, but PlexKodiConnect is nice, but a little slow and buggy, at least when I used it many months ago and it was also running on my Nvidia Shield at the time. I'm sure it would work better now on my HTPC which has a Core i7, an SSD and 24 GB of RAM. I may check it out again since I do use both Plex and Kodi regularly, I've stuck with Trakt as being the easiest solution.
July 30, 20178 yr 32GB (4*8GB) Maxed out my Supermicro - X10SL7-F, I run multiple VMs and dockers, typical usage 38%
August 24, 20178 yr I am using a cheap old Enterprise Server. Dual quad core Xeon L5420 64GB RAM DDR2 20TB Usable Storage Space Once done will be BackupPlan to a Raid 6 FreeNAS with the Same Specs other than 30TB of Storage Area. I plan to backup Multiple PCs. Server to Server connection will be a 10GBe connection. The Motherboard will be the only slowdown.
August 25, 20178 yr First time builder. I put 4x 8GB non-ECC DDR4 in my server since I plan on using it for some "heavy" private and work related virtualization.
August 25, 20178 yr Currently have 8GB PC3-12800E (2x 4GB) and while it works now, with Plex's transcoder set to /tmp, I often see RAM usage in the 60~70 percentile range. This is only myself transcoding. I can only imaging what would happen if multiple users decide to watch content! I'm just too cheap to buy another 8GB at the moment. I may just end up buying two 8GB DIMMS and selling the two 4GB DIMMS. Edit: Typically my server sits around 30~40% useage with only a handful of dockers running ( cadvisor, deluge, DDclient, jackett, sonarr, radarr, plex, plexpy, openvpn-as, plexrequests) However, when Plex decides it wants to record a show or two at the same time I often see the usage jump to around 80% which doesn't leave for a lot of room to do other things like transcode if someone decides to watch something. (I have plex set to transcode to "/tmp" since I don't want it writing to the disk) Edited September 24, 20178 yr by MowMdown
August 29, 20178 yr 16GB DDR4 is a minimum for me (running more than one VM) - had 8GB and my system would often run out of memory in some nasty situations. Never send RAM sticks without padded envelopes. Edited August 29, 20178 yr by KNewman
September 9, 20178 yr As far as I am concerned there will be scaled down version of unraid 64bit with docker function only, so no VM or other fancy stuff. I run my servers headless without the need for anything else but file-serving and downloading. In that case, 16 GB RAM will do nicely, thank you!
September 15, 20178 yr 8GB DDR3. Running typically 2 or 3 dockers and 1 Windows 10 VM. never had any memory issues.
September 15, 20178 yr 64GB DDR4 ECC. Hardware setup was originally for FREENAS but then I saw the "light" :).
September 19, 20178 yr 32GB... was thinking about 64GB so I can run a bunch of VMs within a lab type setting.
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