ilciumbia Posted April 19, 2016 Share #1 Posted April 19, 2016 Hello, I am wondering if, for a system based on the N3150 or N3700, it makes a huge difference to have single channel or dual channel memory. I am planning to buy 8 GB for my XPEnology station, the question is: 2x4 or 1x8? Of course 2x4 would be better, however one single 8 GB module is more "recyclable" shoud I realise that I need more memory (maybe for virtualization): I could simply add one more module, while if I buy now 2x4 I would need to replace both, and recycling 2x4 GB modules might be a little harder. Or is 2x2GB enough? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bglf83 Posted April 20, 2016 Share #2 Posted April 20, 2016 Xpenology does not use much RAM, 8GB is more than enough. Not sure that dual channel memory would make much of a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBK Posted April 20, 2016 Share #3 Posted April 20, 2016 If you are planning on running a lot of VMs or heavy VMs, then max out the RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilciumbia Posted April 22, 2016 Author Share #4 Posted April 22, 2016 Hello, thanks for your replies. In fact I am still undecided: I am trying to choose between the N3700M (mATX) and the N3150-ITX. The former has 3 free PCIe slots, but only 2 SATA ports on board, so I would need to install 2 PCIe SATA controllers to reach 10 SATA ports (8 needed at the moment), plus 1 empty slot for a possible GBE card for redundancy/link aggregation on Ethernet. The 3150-ITX, on the other hand, has 4 SATA ports but only one PCIe slot, plus a miniPCIe, for which exist GBE cards but it is unknown (to me!) if they will work... And then there is the memory thing... but I like the ITX form factor! Are there any PCIe x1 SATA controller cards which carry more than 4 ports which are known to work with XPEnology? And mPCIe GBE network cards? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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