Question about ram usage in Unraid

Mr. Forager@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml – 6 points –

I am about to setup Unraid for the first time, have got the USB and Lisence ready, but watching a bunch of videoes before I dip my feet in. I read and heard that Unraid runs only on the ram, which brings me to the question: My server only has 16GB of ram, whilst my desktop has 48GB of ram, so should I transfer some of my ram-sticks over to the server? (they are the same speed).

Edit: The server will mainly be used for media-streaming 🪼🐠

Thanks for any tips :)

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Ram usage in this case would be localized to data "in-transit", meaning there is an in-memory buffer that is eventually cleared and written to disk in seconds. Unless you have some crazy equipment that can transmit 20Gb/s, don't worry about.