Preparing to basically do a DIY NAS with unraid, and I'm mainly using some older hardware from old gaming PC's. Using a i5 3570k on a ASRock H77 Pro4/MVP motherboard in a Antec P101 Silent case (this is new). This will primarily be used simply for storing photos, accessing those photos would be an infrequent thing. Don't plan to run any VM's or dockers or anything.

 

I have a single 8GB stick of DDR3 1600, or a 4x4GB (16GB) kit. I'd like to use the single 8GB stick, does anybody see a problem with that?

A single stick should run fine though you'll have less bandwidth for compute heavy tasks. 8GB plenty for lightweight use.

Thanks. I knew the bandwidth is the compromise but I figure this box won't need to be super fast.