New to NAS first attempt - will FreeNas run on a Synology ds220j?

[TTLTTL]

I put the question in search and it said no results found. Main PC is an i7-4770 16GB ram and a 480GB SSD Will it be sufficient to run FreeNas or will I have to use the Synology software? I assume I have to install it on the PC first but then what comes next. IF it will run on their box how do I get the system on the correct HDD in the box. Plan on a 240GB SSD and an 8TB 7200RPM HDD. How would I tell FreeNas which disk to operate from? Plan on files on the 8TB and I read about putting certain stuff on a SSD for faster recall of certain things.

 

[Samuel Tai]

FreeNAS is not an application. It's an entire operating system, so you won't be able to just install it on your desktop, unless you run bare-metal virtualiation like vmWare or ProxMox. Second, the DS220J has an ARM CPU, and FreeNAS only runs on x86 or x86_64 CPUs, so you won't be able to install FreeNAS on the Synology either.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

FreeNAS does not go on your PC but on your NAS hardware. And the minimum specs apply to said NAS hardware. The Synology you mention has got only 512 M of memory, while the minimum for FreeNAS is 8 G.

The general approach is not to buy a ready-made NAS solution like Synology or Qnap but an enclosure, mainboard, memory and disks and then use the FreeNAS system instead of a proprietary firmware. You need a regular PC platform for that that lets you install your own OS.

 

[TTLTTL]

Thanks for the reply's. I am just an average home user not a tech wizard so the Synology software is going to have to be used as I can't afford to build a whole system to do what I'm getting for the cost of this box. A friend has one and has no problem streaming 4k to his TV which is what I want to do.

 

[Fredda]

A friend has one and has no problem streaming 4k to his TV which is what I want to do.

As long as you do simple streaming without transcoding this should also work with your Synology.