How many GB needed for OMV ?

willri · 18. Februar 2013

Hello,

after I've got my N40L up and running with OMV on the internal 250GB HD I want to replace
this drive with an old Notebook 2,5" HD, for mainly two reasons:

1. All 4 bays then are usable for great 3 to 4 TB drives.

2. The System consumes less power. ( I was surprised that with my starting configuration
my power meter shows 38 W. That is much more then I read in some forums. )

Now I want to know what size is the whole OMV package when installed with all plugins ?

My 2.5" drive has only 4 GB, is this enough ? Is then there also some spare place for
future expansions ?

THX

tekkb · 18. Februar 2013

5 gigs is enough for the system drive.

willri · 18. Februar 2013

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Ups-- as mentioned I have only 4 GB ? Did you mean 4 GB and just hit the wrong key on the keyboard ?

tekkb · 18. Februar 2013

I thought 4 was enough and then looked and I'd suggest minimum 5 gigs. I dunno how much extra I have installed from the base install. Try it with the 4 gb drive and see if you can do it.

votdev · 18. Februar 2013

Please see http://wiki.openmediavault.org…tion#Minimum_Requirements

I am running a OMV test installation on a 1GiB DOM, but this device is nearly full, thus i suggest more space. On my productive system i am using a 4GiB DOM. But i did not have installed really much, so the min. requirements depends on what you plan to install.

ryecoaaron · 18. Februar 2013

Three of my systems are using between 1.2 and 1.4 GB. I have a fourth using a lot more but I have samba home directories enabled with a lot of user files.

willri · 18. Februar 2013

THX @all

votdev

my old NB HD is very slow, only 14Mbit/s internal and 33 Mbit/s external transfer rate.

I think a DOM is at about 10 times faster.

Do you think that will have a dramatic influence for the overall performance of the system ?

Do you think I should better go for a DOM or SSD ?

Is a DOM safer than a USB stick ? It's also just a silicon drive.

ryecoaaron · 18. Februar 2013

For a file server, the old NB HD would be fine. Although I wouldn't use one, many people have used a usb stick that probably has worse transfer rates.

willri · 18. Februar 2013

Unfortunately the NB HD drive is a very very old one and the transferrate is specified
in Mbit/s and not in MB/s. That means it is much slower than a fast USB Stick, isn't it ?

ryecoaaron · 18. Februar 2013

Oh, didn't noticed the Mbits. I think the DOM and ssd are about the same in my book unless you got an SLC ssd. A 2.5" drive would probably be cheaper and would most likely outlast the dom and ssd.

KM0201 · 19. Februar 2013

Zitat von "willri"

Unfortunately the NB HD drive is a very very old one and the transferrate is specified
in Mbit/s and not in MB/s. That means it is much slower than a fast USB Stick, isn't it ?

I think 4gigs is going to be a bit small once you start setting up services.

Surely someone you know has a broken laptop or netbook, etc? Here in the US.. new 2.5in sata drives are generally pretty cheap on ebay (they can be found regularly in the 40-120gig range, which is plenty).

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