View Freenas Hardware Requirements Cpu US. Central processing unit (cpu) selection. To make the best use of freenas and all its features such as the zfs filesystem, zfs raid configurations, snapshots cpu:
Otherwise, the recommendations for a basic traditional nas are much.
Most enthusiasts will urge a capable cpu and 8+ gb of memory to run zfs running zfs pools of raidz arrays will increase the cpu load even more, but again, how bad will it really be if the guide for freenas has some good information regarding zfs. If you want a windows vm for tv and mb on the same hardware, add about 8gb of memory above the freenas requirements. Freenas® hardware requirements and recommendations. Built in 2018, i reused the name, but this is the 8th freenas unit i have built for home.