Up till now I’ve been running Debian on a 2008 Dell tower as my homeserver. I just got 2 1tb drives for it so I want to upgrade to an actual dedicated NAS software to simplify how I manage it. The problem is, I only have 4gb of RAM in it. Any recommendations?

Edit: For context, I mostly use the server for Nextcloud and Syncthing but I also want to be able to have a generic Debian server with ssh access available if I need it.

    • Krafty KactusOPEnglish
      4•9 months ago

      Minimum RAM for TrueNAS is 8gb. I really should get more RAM though.

      • @[email protected]
        2•9 months ago

        You technically can run on 4, but you won’t have much in the way of ZFS cache and forget about containers like nextcloud/syncthing. You’ll get NFS/SMB and rsync and that’s it.

        • lemmyvoreEnglish
          4•9 months ago

          My syncthing container consumes about 100 MB of RAM.

          • @[email protected]
            1•9 months ago

            My bare TrueNAS consumes about 3.8 GiB of ram without any containers running and not counting cache.

            • lemmyvoreEnglish
              2•9 months ago

              Oh jeez, that’s terrible. What is using the RAM? I’m also consuming 3.7 GB (without buffers) but I have 21 containers running (Debian stable):

              1. Jellyfin and Deluge take the lion’s share out of that, about 85%.
              2. NPM, Navidrome, MySQL are the second-tier largest offenders but take 1/10th of the 1st tier together.
              3. BubbleUPnP Server, Scrutiny, Tailscale, Syncthing, Radicale, my VPN are 3rd tier, about 1/2 of 2nd tier.
              4. Then another ~10 containers with very little amounts of RAM per container (CUPS, Ntfy, my dev Nginx server etc.)
              • @[email protected]
                1•9 months ago

                It is? Damn. I’m very much a newbie to TrueNAS. I thought it was high but had no basis of comparison. It’s a pretty fresh install. I installed jellyfin but shut it down, pending a memory upgrade to actually start using it.