View Freenas Hardware Requirements Pics. Freenas is a freebsd based storage platform that utilizes zfs. I'm planning to build a freenas server as a home media and backup storage.
Pc lovers tend to collect a lot of hardware as the years roll by.
One of the biggest advantages of freenas is that it will run on virtually any hardware, so you have the potential to build a new file server without laying out any cash. Freenas documentation recommends a minimum of 6gb of ram for best performance with zfs. To make the best use of freenas and all its features such as the zfs filesystem, zfs raid configurations, snapshots, lacp on nics and failover. People who has to double check everything, here's a url to the freenas hardware requirements.