Advantages and disadvantages of FeeNAS 12? Installation process? How to store data on disk?

Question

FreeNAS

1. What size can I use an installation flash drive or, in other words, is an 8 GB flash drive suitable, or do I need 16?
2. 8 GB of RAM is minimally welcome, does the speed of work increase with an increase in RAM? Who tried.
3. During the initial installation (not an upgrade!) is there any danger of losing data on the disks? (Is there somewhere they offer to clean the disks?)
4 Who has already used it, it's better than 12th than 11.3. How? (maybe a link to materials, articles on the net) On the site of the developers they say that the 12th is better for beginners.
5 Is it Russified or English?
Thank you!

Answer 1

What size can I use an installation flash drive or, in other words, is an 8 GB flash drive suitable, or do I need 16?

Whichever one fits, use that one.

8 GB of RAM is the minimum welcome, with an increase in RAM, does the speed of work increase? Who tried.

RAM is always good, but FreeBSD works great on a small amount, unlike sluggish and gluttonous Linux;

During the initial installation (not an upgrade!) Is there a danger of losing data on the disks? (Is there somewhere they offer to clean the disks?)

There is no danger unless you clean it yourself.

Who has already used the 12th is better than 11.3. How? (maybe a link to materials, articles on the net) On the site of the developers they say that the 12th is better for beginners.

New is always better.

Is it Russified or English?

I used English, I don’t know if there is a Russian language, I can’t look now.

Answer 2

Now they (ixsystems) advise not a flash drive, but a disk (hdd, ssd) from 8 GB.
The more operatives, the better (ECC is strongly advised, it's understandable) - it is used for ARC
It has been updated sequentially since version 9, the flight is normal! (but the new interface is sometimes buggy, my reporting section does not always open adequately)
Exclusively in English. Translations are clumsy.

Answer 3

Another question: If I make a new version 12 bootloader and try to work with it, can I then boot from the old 11.3 version and go back and continue working with the old version? Regarding booting from a disk, all the disk connectors on the motherboard are occupied by the HDD, pci express is also busy, only USB remains. Therefore, the system takes a long time to boot.