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.

  • 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.