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Old 02-19-2019, 08:01 PM   #521
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A quick glance at the website doesn't show show minimum hardware requirements. What qualifies as a modest old box?
OMV (Debian with headless NAS software added) minimum hardware requirements:
Any architecture/hardware that can run Debian Linux. 256 MiB RAM. 2 GiB hard drive, solid-state drive, or USB flash drive with static wear leveling support for the OS. 1 hard drive, solid-state drive, or USB flash drive for storing user data.

The "static wear leveling" is not absolutely true. OMV can reduce writing to flash memory to a minimum by using tempfs and various other tricks. But that may require more than 256 MiB RAM.

I run OMV with the root fs on micro SD cards. Except for one that has / on a SSD and another on a SSHD. Nice for running docker containers like Emby. About to try to put both Emby and NextCloud on the SSHD one. It may be a birthday gift to a relative. It seems that NextCloud has a plugin for reading ebooks on the NAS in a browser window. Curious...
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