Up till now I’ve been running Debian on a 2008 Dell tower as my homeserver. I just got 2 1tb drives for it so I want to upgrade to an actual dedicated NAS software to simplify how I manage it. The problem is, I only have 4gb of RAM in it. Any recommendations?
Edit: For context, I mostly use the server for Nextcloud and Syncthing but I also want to be able to have a generic Debian server with ssh access available if I need it.
Pretty much any?
Headless distros won’t really differ in RAM usage. The only generic OS property that I could relistically see saving significant resources in this regard would be 32bit but that’s… eh.
What’s more important is how you utilize the limited resources. If you have to resort to containers for everything and run 50 instences of postgres, redis etc. because the distro doesn’t ship the software you want to run natively, that won’t work.
For NAS purposes and a few web services though, even containers would likely work just fine.