&gt;We started with 16x 1TB disks and 16GB of RAM.<p>Type of Drives,  did you have a L2 ARC and ZIL...<p>There are alot of reasons why you may have needed the additional ram. If you were using off the Shelf 7200 (or worse 5400) NAS drives then I am not shocked,  these drives are for storage not for VM&#x27;s.  need atleast 10K drives for VM storage<p>&gt;Definitely not hyped as you said in the enterprise space - think some home users see that warning of 1GB per 1TB though and get put off.<p>It still kinda is, but 90% of the questions I see posted in various places are about Home and Test Labs, not Enterprise Deployments.<p>you do not need 32GB of RAM for your home file server that is likely serving less than 10 clients.