July 7, 201510 yr I noticed a lot of the new unRAID systems being built have 16 Gigs of RAM. The new server I just built has only 4 Gigs and appears to have about 30% utilization (from the Dashboard). It doesn't seem to waiver too much. I'm only using unRAID for NAS and a few Dockers (Plex, Sabnzbd, Sickbeard, etc.). I'm assuming that based on this there isn't any reason to upgrade the RAM...correct? Is 16 Gigs only needed for doing things like virtualization?
July 7, 201510 yr If your only doing NAS and a few Dockers, 4GB of ram is plenty. If you want to start running a windows VM for gaming you will want to boost your ram up to 16 or more depending on what your going to be doing
July 7, 201510 yr Author Thanks for confirming what I thought was probably the case. I'll stay with my 4 gigs for now and look to get more if I start to dabble with virtualization.
July 7, 201510 yr I noticed a lot of the new unRAID systems being built have 16 Gigs of RAM. The new server I just built has only 4 Gigs and appears to have about 30% utilization (from the Dashboard). It doesn't seem to waiver too much. I'm only using unRAID for NAS and a few Dockers (Plex, Sabnzbd, Sickbeard, etc.). I'm assuming that based on this there isn't any reason to upgrade the RAM...correct? Is 16 Gigs only needed for doing things like virtualization? Yeah once you start messing with VM's the memory goes pretty quick. Here is how I have mine broken down: unRAID - 6 GB (4 Dockers) Windows 8 VM - 4 GB OS X VM - 4 GB Ubuntu Server VM - 1 GB pfSense VM - 1 GB My memory on my dashboard hovers around 75% - 80% most of the time. I had more memory allocated to my Windows and OS X VM's but my dashboard was always around 90+% and on occasion a VM would crash. I think this would occur when unRAID was doing something intensive and stole memory from a VM.
August 4, 201510 yr If your only doing NAS and a few Dockers, 4GB of ram is plenty. If you want to start running a windows VM for gaming you will want to boost your ram up to 16 or more depending on what your going to be doing Could you explain how someone might game with a VM? I am assuming not over RDP or VNC...
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