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* taking in consideration that SSD and HDD are still made
  and now there is the HHD (Helium Hard drives) those with helium inside
  for high demand storage .. in speciall NAS systems.
  the SDD is not the best for NAS systems, HDD/HHD are the best..
  so i included the "HHD" inside the formula.. so this information
  will not be out of date in many years.. cos spining disks still
  are the best for long data
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Item supported Minimal Best Recommendation
====== ================ ========= ========== ==================================
DRIV SSD/HDD/USB... 1,any 2,KIOXIA 2 disks: Seagate Firecuda, WD Black, IronWolf
DRIV SSD/HDD/USB... 1,any 2,HHD 2 disks: Seagate Firecuda, WD Black, IronWolf
RAM 1GiB+ any 1GiB 4Gig 8GiB+ dual channel DDR4/DDR3
NIC WiFi/Ether/USB any 10Mb NIC 1GiB NIC or 10Gb NICs: SFP fiber
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.
**Supported Debian OS versions can be checked in the** :doc:`releases section </releases>`.

However, the manufacturers to consider depend on the type of disks.
For HDDs, Seagate FireCuda disks, Western Digital Black disks,
and for SSDs, KIOXIA or Toshiba are the best for. In case of USB or EMMC,
companies are reluctant to provide information, so avoid the Samsung brand.

Modern storage drives have firmware inside that reports several attributes.
Any storage drives is supported but |omv| only supports SMART for those
disks that are connected to an HBA in pass-through mode.

The system manages two types of storage unit classification:

System drive storage (SDS)
The Storage Disk Drive(s) used to put the system program files (by partitions),
**this system drive (that is in fact a couple or more partitions)
The Storage Disk Drive(s) used to put the system program files.
**This system drive (which can consist of several partitions)
cannot officially be used for shared resources or as user data drive**.
What supported brands and sizes are covered in the software requirements section below.
The recommendation for the system drive(s) hardware could be older spinning
Hard Disk Drives (HDD), Disk-on-Module [3]_, CompactFlash [4]_ or thumb drives (USB),
the Solid State Disks (SDD [2]_) must be managed.
the Solid State Disks (SDD [2]_) must be managed. Best option are
the Helium Hard Drives (HHD).

Data drive storage (DDS)
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
system could be an |omv| system installation target. **Currently supported are
AMD64 (x86/x86-64 64bits), i386 (x86 32bits), ARMv7+ARMv8 (arm64 64bits armel/armhf 32bits)**.
The i386 version stopped its official support in version 6 although it is still
being released by the project due the nature of the |omv| technology.
The i386 version is no longer officially supported since version 6, although
it is still published by the project due to the nature of |omv| technology.

Software requirements
---------------------

====== ================= ============== ============== =======================================
Item Software Minimal Best Recommendation
====== ================= ============== ============== =======================================
OS Debian Linux oldoldstable stable Current stable (plus 1 month released)
OS Debian Linux oldstable stable Current stable (plus 1 month released)
BOOT BIOS,UBOOT,UEFI BIOS,mbr BIOS,gpt Disable Secure boot, gpt table
SDS HDD,SSD,USB... 1, 4GiB 2, 120+500GiB Disk drive with 120G root size, 8G swap size
DDS HDD,SSD,USB... 0 or any 1 per share One disk or part per shared resource
DDS HDD,SSD,USB... 0 or any HHD,1 per share One disk or part per shared resource
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
only supports AMD64 with BIOS mode boot at the moment. If you want to have |omv| on
other computers with another boot type/mode you should install Debian first
and then manually the |omv| can be installed without problems.
other computers with another boot type/mode, then you should install Debian first
and then :doc:`manually</installation/on_debian>` |omv|.

**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
and runs, which is Debian GNU/Linux, check it at the :doc:`releases section </releases>`.

The system storage disk will be fully managed and taken over by the |omv| after
The system storage disk will be fully managed and taken over by |omv| after
installed. In case of the official ISO installation, will automatically partition
the system storage disk drive into 3 partitons. Consult the next table for.

In case of a manual installation on a previous Debian operating system, this
**drive must have at least two partitions**. Consult the next table for.
**drive should have at least two partitions**. Consult the next table for.

============ ========== =========== =======================================
Partition Mininmal Best size Mandatory
============ ========== =========== =======================================
``/boot`` 256Mib 500Mib Optional, partition used to boot
``/`` 4Gi 120GiB Yes, the partition were system install
``swap`` 100Mib 16GiB Yes, the partition for virtual ram
``swap`` 100Mib 16GiB Optional, the partition for virtual ram
============ ========== =========== =======================================

The Data drive storage (DDS)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The data storage disk will be partially managed by the |omv| after installation,
and only in customized installation can be a partiton of the same system drive
and only in customized installation this can be a partition of the same system drive
storage.

Each data storage drive will be managed, but regardless of the partitioning
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