by father.mande » Mon Jul 15, 2019 4:31 pm
Hi,
The memory capacity depends of multiple factors :
1 possibility of the chipset and bios/efi to manage hardware memory
... generally it's relative to the CPU capability ATOM can support up to 8 GB
... BUT provider (Intel) can limit the size officially authorized for segmenting market (ex. the Celeron J1800/1900 (I speak about it because used by NAS) officially support 8 GB but you can in reallity up to 16 GB but not supported by Intel)
2 possibility of the peripheral associated ... some hardware extension can used only a limited size of memory (for D.M.A. direct memory access)
... generally it's some (ex. SGX but provide as Intel) integrated graphics cards or some E_sata even Lan controllers ...
3 capability of the O.S. used ... ex. 32 bits O.S. can address 4 GB (minus reserved areas) ... so 3 GB
... the more memory (after 4 GB) is view by hardware (Bios/Efi) but not accessible directly by the O.S. (directly, because some piece of code can use this extended memory using a paging mode ... but ??? )
So the first thing is to identify your O.S. (32 or 64 bits)
Then read processor capability and reserved memory ... have a look to Bios / Efi
If all seem said : "Yes you can use more than 4 GB" ... use tools to test (eat) the memory and see if it not crash after using more then 3 GB or 4 GB
... a 3 GB limit is always due to 1 GB reserved memory ... generally (if possible) deactivate I.G.P. (graphics) permit to used fully the 4 GB .
In all case, remember that you lost support and guaranty if you go out of Asustor specificity
Philippe.
N.B. you can get interesting information using dmidecode
