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Item supported Minimal Best Recommendation
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- DRIV SSD/HDD/USB... 1,any 2,KIOXIA 2 disks: Seagate Firecuda, WD Black, IronWolf
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+ DRIV SSD/HDD/USB... 1,any 2,HHD 2 disks: Seagate Firecuda, WD Black, IronWolf
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RAM 1GiB+ any 1GiB 4Gig 8GiB+ dual channel DDR4/DDR3
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NIC WiFi/Ether/USB any 10Mb NIC 1GiB NIC or 10Gb NICs: SFP fiber
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CPU arm,x86,x64 32bit 64bit Intel Dual Core, AMD Ryzen
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depend on the disk drives supported by the Debian operating system.
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**Supported Debian OS versions can be checked in the ** :doc: `releases section </releases >`.
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- However, the manufacturers to consider depend on the type of disks.
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- For HDDs, Seagate FireCuda disks, Western Digital Black disks,
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- and for SSDs, KIOXIA or Toshiba are the best for. In case of USB or EMMC,
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- companies are reluctant to provide information, so avoid the Samsung brand.
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Modern storage drives have firmware inside that reports several attributes.
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Any storage drives is supported but |omv | only supports SMART for those
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disks that are connected to an HBA in pass-through mode.
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The system manages two types of storage unit classification:
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System drive storage (SDS)
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- The Storage Disk Drive(s) used to put the system program files (by partitions),
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- **this system drive (that is in fact a couple or more partitions)
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+ The Storage Disk Drive(s) used to put the system program files.
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+ **This system drive (which can consist of several partitions)
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cannot officially be used for shared resources or as user data drive **.
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- What supported brands and sizes are covered in the software requirements section below.
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The recommendation for the system drive(s) hardware could be older spinning
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Hard Disk Drives (HDD), Disk-on-Module [3 ]_, CompactFlash [4 ]_ or thumb drives (USB),
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- the Solid State Disks (SDD [2 ]_) must be managed.
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+ the Solid State Disks (SDD [2 ]_) must be managed. Best option are
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+ the Helium Hard Drives (HHD).
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Data drive storage (DDS)
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The storage disk drive(s) where the user data will be stored. **Cannot be
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Any computer system supported by the common requirements of Debian operating
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system could be an |omv | system installation target. **Currently supported are
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AMD64 (x86/x86-64 64bits), i386 (x86 32bits), ARMv7+ARMv8 (arm64 64bits armel/armhf 32bits) **.
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- The i386 version stopped its official support in version 6 although it is still
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- being released by the project due the nature of the |omv | technology.
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+ The i386 version is no longer officially supported since version 6, although
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+ it is still published by the project due to the nature of |omv | technology.
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Software requirements
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Item Software Minimal Best Recommendation
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- OS Debian Linux oldoldstable stable Current stable (plus 1 month released)
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+ OS Debian Linux oldstable stable Current stable (plus 1 month released)
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BOOT BIOS,UBOOT,UEFI BIOS,mbr BIOS,gpt Disable Secure boot, gpt table
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SDS HDD,SSD,USB... 1, 4GiB 2, 120+500GiB Disk drive with 120G root size, 8G swap size
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- DDS HDD,SSD,USB... 0 or any 1 per share One disk or part per shared resource
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+ DDS HDD,SSD,USB... 0 or any HHD, 1 per share One disk or part per shared resource
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NET LAN,WAN,SAN,VPN LAN SAN,PAN,LAN Fiber IPv4, or at least cable LAN
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However the downloadable and ready-to-use ISO image from the official |omv | website
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only supports AMD64 with BIOS mode boot at the moment. If you want to have |omv | on
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- other computers with another boot type/mode you should install Debian first
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- and then manually the |omv | can be installed without problems .
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+ other computers with another boot type/mode, then you should install Debian first
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+ and then :doc: ` manually</installation/on_debian> ` |omv |.
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**Supported Debian OS versions can be checked in the ** :doc: `releases section </releases >`.
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the Debian operating system version, since it is where |omv | system resides
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and runs, which is Debian GNU/Linux, check it at the :doc: `releases section </releases >`.
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- The system storage disk will be fully managed and taken over by the |omv | after
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+ The system storage disk will be fully managed and taken over by |omv | after
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installed. In case of the official ISO installation, will automatically partition
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the system storage disk drive into 3 partitons. Consult the next table for.
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In case of a manual installation on a previous Debian operating system, this
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- **drive must have at least two partitions **. Consult the next table for.
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+ **drive should have at least two partitions **. Consult the next table for.
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Partition Mininmal Best size Mandatory
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``/boot `` 256Mib 500Mib Optional, partition used to boot
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``/ `` 4Gi 120GiB Yes, the partition were system install
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- ``swap `` 100Mib 16GiB Yes , the partition for virtual ram
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+ ``swap `` 100Mib 16GiB Optional , the partition for virtual ram
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The Data drive storage (DDS)
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The data storage disk will be partially managed by the |omv | after installation,
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- and only in customized installation can be a partiton of the same system drive
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+ and only in customized installation this can be a partition of the same system drive
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storage.
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Each data storage drive will be managed, but regardless of the partitioning
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