Dell PowerEdge SC430, ok to run Freenas 8?

[erj@greco.com.br]

Hello all
I am considering to start using Freenas, instead of a old Mandriva server version.
My server is a Dell PowerEdge SC430. Nowadays it has only 512k, but can be expanded to 4gb (maximum)
Hard disk is 1.5Tb, I plan to expand to 2Tb.
Do you thing that Freenas will run fine on this system? I don´t need a top performance, but I don´t want to create a bottleneck. Actual system is fine and I don´t want to screw up.
I am considering to use ZFS because of backup feature. Will 4gb memory be enough?
My network is very small, only 12 PCs and some MACs. My company is a publishing company, most of our work is publishing books and magazines with in-Design, Ilustrator and Photoshop.
Thanks in advance
Regards
Edison

 

[erj@greco.com.br]

any suggestion??

 

[Hondatek]

ERJ you there?

 

[erj@greco.com.br]

yes, I am

 

[Hondatek]

yes, I am

whats the specs on ur Dell? install it and play with it look up the specs for FreeNAS 8 I have installed (8.3.1) it on a dell poweredge sc1430 I upgraded the ram to 8Gigs and the CPU to a 5148 low voltage. I need HDD's though it has two 250's I want to add 4. but it runs Supper fast on a 10/100 network.

 

[Hondatek]

I looked up the specs. what you want to use it for?

 

[erj@greco.com.br]

Hi Hondatek,
Full specs are here: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/sc430_specs.pdf
with 512k memory and Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
My network is very small, only 12 PCs and some MACs. My company is a publishing company, most of our work is publishing books and magazines with in-Design, Ilustrator and Photoshop.

 

[Hondatek]

this might help you. I think you might want to get something a little newer for what you want to do. here is the link on the freeNAS specs. they are very demanding. 1 Gig per Terabyte. read up do your home work so you can find what's best for ur needs. Hope this helps.

 

[cyberjock]

512k of memory won't even load up FreeBSD.. you have a mistake.

 

[Hondatek]

http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Hardware_Requirements

 

[erj@greco.com.br]

Hi cyberjock.
As can be seen in my first post, this server can be expanded to 4gb. In your opinion how would it behave using ZFS with 4gb?

 

[cyberjock]

I'll never build a system with only 4GB of RAM for ZFS. The manual calls for 6GB(minimum) to be stable. All it takes is 1 kernel panic from insufficient RAM to corrupt the zpool file system(hence making it unmountable) and all the data will be gone forever. This happens a lot more often than people want to admit, and while I feel bad when they lose everything its not like the answers weren't available to them.

 

[erj@greco.com.br]

Thanks cyber. I will go in another direction.