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The massive amounts of RAM recommendation is if you need to do deduplication. Are you doing that? If not then you don't need a lot of RAM. Between the low cost
by eriknstr 9y ago
The massive amounts of RAM recommendation is if you need to do deduplication. Are you doing that? If not then you don't need a lot of RAM.
Between the low cost of storage, and alternative solutions for deduplicating data I personally don't use the built-in deduplication functionality of ZFS for my zpools. Might come down to what sorts of data you are storing, though.
- sfoskett 9y agoYup. This. Now that I have 32 GB of RAM in my FreeNAS box I decided I really didn't need dedupe after all. I just don't have that much duplicated data, and I've got 60 TB of HDDs in the box. So I use the RAM for VMs instead!
- agumonkey 9y agoYeah dedup is mostly useful for massively multiusers setups, say mail, file sharing, etc etc. For small setups you can do a `fdupes` pass once a day and fix it yourself I suppose.