Storm King Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 Here is my build https://pcpartpicker.com/list/P7WG29 The ram is $32 per module with needing to buy 2 at a time due to dual cpus So i'm looking at making an unraid nas/media server at the end of the month and I was wondering how much ram it would require. I would be starting out with a 10TB drive, Plex, 1-2 VMs, and whatever i find interesting in docker while adding a 10TB parity drive in mid October. My endgame is to just keep adding 10TB drives and eventually would just end up with 7x10TB data and 2 parity drives with Plex and 1-2 vms. This would be much much further down the road though. Just want to say now I know that this isn't a back up nor is it meant to be just mainly a media server and I would have backups of anything important on and off the nas. I've read that unraid doesn't require as much ram as freenas and that people regularly run with 8-16GB of ram for just their nas section. So what I am asking is how much ram would I need for my endgame because I would rather just get it now and not deal with getting it latter. I would need to go with 32GB,64GB,96GB because the sticks have to be added in pairs. I would appreciate any help~ Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 UnRAID can run its base NAS capability in 4GB of RAM regardless of the amount of attached storage. Most people add more to allow for running dockers and/or VMs. Quote Link to comment
Jcloud Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 (edited) 5 hours ago, Storm King said: So what I am asking is how much ram would I need for my endgame You mentioned endgame, lets assume two virtual machines (out of your 1-2 VMs from your post) - how much ram do you want to allocate to each vm? How about 16G per vm? Lets assume running Docker apps in this time period, so 8-16GB there. So, you're at (2*16 for vms) + (8 to 16 for Docker) + (4 to 8 for unraid) ==> 44GB on low end or 56GB for highend, that may as well be 64GB for easy memory pairs. As you can see, no set rules, just a matter of how much headroom you wish to give yourself, and what you want to invest in for hardware. I hope that helps. Edited September 4, 2018 by Jcloud Quote Link to comment
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