Reply to post: Re: overbuilt much?

IT bods, beware! AWS claims Storage Gateway appliance doesn't need you to manage it

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Re: overbuilt much?

Not sure how much data you store but "2 big xeons and 128GB of ram" sounds about right for a NAS handling lots of data.

As a general rule of thumb for mission critical NASs you should have at minimum 1GB RAM per 1TB of storage.

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