Hi.
I'm thinking more and more about how overkill the hardware on my omv NAS (which backs up the data from another NAS and acts as a backup NAS/Plex server in case my main NAS (a Syology DS218) goes down) is. I built my main desktop PC and my backup NAS at the same time back in 2018. My NAS has an i3 8100, a 128 GB SSD for OMV (even in 2018 I gave up on finding a smaller drive) and... 32 GB of RAM. I installed Windows on a separate SSD in case I need it for some reason but even for that OS I think 32 GB is way too much for the purpose of a NAS. I even thought of giving up that hardware to sell it and use an old PC that I was gifted by the company I spent time in as an intern during my IT studies, that I currently have no use for, but I would have just enough SATA ports to plug my data drives. I know OMV can run off a USB flash drive but I'd rather use an internal SSD. Basically I never see omv using more than 3 or 4 GB (or less) of RAM even at peak usage. I originally intended to put 16 GB of RAM in that build but my 2 8 GB sticks got lost in the mail, Amazon sent me another package after considering ir lost (after 15 days), and I received the original package several months after that. But if I'm removing unused RAM, what do I do with it? I certainly don't want it inside a drawer and I don't have any free slots in my desktop PC.
What do you think ?
Thanks in advance.