Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server
This article seems right up my alley, so here are some thoughts:<p>- ZFS is pretty amazing in it's abilities, with it ushering in the age of software RAID over hardware RAID<p>- ZFS shouldn't be limited to FreeBSD. The Linux port has come quite a long way. I'd advise you to use PPA over repo though, as many key features are missing from the version on repos.<p>- TrueNAS is more targeted towards enterprise applications. If you want good utility as a home user then give Proxmox or the like a look. Then you can make it into more than just a NAS (if you're open to it).<p>- If you want to make things even more simple then consider something like UnRAID.<p>- ZFS' snapshotting can really shine on a virtualization server application, with the ability to revert KVM VMs to a previous state in a matter of seconds. Lookup Jim Salter's (great dude) Sanoid project to see a prime example.<p>- I don't recall why, but I've heard that RAIDZ should be avoided, in favor of stripped mirrors.