I have some Dell PowerEdge 840 tower servers. They have Xeon processors and 8GB of ECC RAM. I understand that the servers will not support over 8GB of RAM. I have 4 x 2TB drives in most of them using RAIDz1 arrays. They work great! I am not doing anything performance intensive. They simply act as a file server or a backup server using Windows SMB shares. I know that the general recommendation is 1 GB RAM per 1 TB drive space, with no less than 8 GB.
How much drive space could I install and still get reliable performance?
4 x 3TB?
4 x 4TB?
4 x 6TB?
4 x 8TB?
4 x 10TB?
What would happen if I exceed the drive space that is able to be supported by the 8GB RAM? Slow write performance, slow read performance, crashes, drive corruption, other?
How much drive space could I install and still get reliable performance?
4 x 3TB?
4 x 4TB?
4 x 6TB?
4 x 8TB?
4 x 10TB?
What would happen if I exceed the drive space that is able to be supported by the 8GB RAM? Slow write performance, slow read performance, crashes, drive corruption, other?