PC Upgrade – Testing Installed RAM with memtest86

by James McDonald | Jul 22, 2026 | IT Tips | 0 comments

Originally I build the above small ITX PC in a Silverstone case and recently I lost my dear old 4 Drive Synology DS415+ so I've moved the 4 x 8TB HDD's into a new case and transferred the innards into the following new bits. RAM, Case and SSD.

QTY. PART #[ID]DESCRIPTION EX TAXDIS% EX TOTAL
1F4-3600C18D-32GTZRG.SKILL TRIDENT Z RGB F4-3600C18D-32GTZR 32GB (2X16GB)
3600MHZ DDR4 C18 MEMORY
$ 335.450.00$ 335.46
1CA-1C2-00M1NN-00THERMALTAKE VERSA H25 MID TOWER CASE ( USB3.0 )$ 58.180.00$ 58.18
1BNV350001TB-RGXBIWIN NV3500 1TB PCIE3.0 M.2 NVME 2280 UP TO 3500MB/S &
2500MB/S - 5 YEAR WARRANTY (BNV350001TB-RGX)
$ 226.360.00$ 226.36
1 CREDIT CARD FEE$ 13.640.00$ 13.64
 Subtotal Ex:$ 633.64
GST(10%):$ 63.36
Owing (Inc GST):$ 697.00
 Paid:$ 697.00

As it is an old build with moved components I wanted to test whether the RAM is OK.

So I've downloaded and ran https://www.memtest86.com/ I believe it will take around 4 to 6 hours to do the default four pass test run. But good way of confirming the RAM is good before running the built PC

4 passes took 5 hours.

I've run TrueNAS on it and the file copy performance has been a solid 114MB/s or (0.912Gbps) for my Unifi 1Gbps network.

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