Recommended Memory Size (RAM) for a 3TB File Server

Please recommend me a suitable memory size for a dedicated 3 TB fileserver. would a 512MB suffice the system? or do I need a larger 4GB RAM?

Thanks in Advance

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There are many factors

Reply 1 2012-05-31

Such as how many connections and so on. But it should work with 512MB but how well I don't know... Only way to be sure is to test. My 2TB fileserver at home works well but has max 3 connections and is certainly not expected to throughput huge amounts of data (512MB RAM with 1 CPU running as an OVZ container).