Before installing |omv| make sure your hardware is supported.
- CPU: Any x86-64 or ARM compatible processor
- RAM: 1 GiB capacity
- HDD:
- System Drive: min. 4 GiB capacity (plus the capacity of the RAM)
- Data Drive: capacity according to your needs
Note
The whole disc will be occupied by the system and swap space [1], so size doesn't matter so much. Data storage on the system disc is not supported.
Note
Take into account in your considerations about the size of the system disk that various plugins such as openmediavault-podman or openmediavault-k8s store their data (e.g. container images) on the system disk.
Spinning Harddisk, SSD [2], Disk-on-Module [3], CompactFlash [4] or USB thumb drive [5] type drives can be used as system drive.
If you use a Flash Drive, select one with static wear leveling [6], without this the drive will have a very short lifetime. It is also recommended to install and activate the :ref:`Flash Memory plugin <plugin_3rd_party>`. The entire disk is used as system disk and can not be used to store user data.
| [1] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging |
| [2] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive |
| [3] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#DOM |
| [4] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompactFlash |
| [5] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive |
| [6] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_leveling |