Comment on Upgrading storage to usb drives

asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• kumi@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I suspect this machine might be memory constrained and if so zfs might push it to its limits if it’s already close.

  If it has <8G and doesn’t already have decent headroom I’d think twice about ZFS depending on how its gong to be used

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  • FierroG@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Didn’t know about this, it is at 8 GB of ddr3, couldn’t find a bigger stick and it doesn’t have more than one slot. I’m updating the post to address other responses. Thanks

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    • kumi@feddit.online ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you consider ZFS and don’t mind having the machine offline for a day or two you could fill it up with real (backups!) or representative fake data and run some tests/benchmarks before you fully commit. It depends a lot on how the data is structured and what you’re running on it and it’s possible it will run fine.

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