I posted last week about building a NAS, and on friday I saw that the Jonsbo N4 case I had been eyeing for a while was in stock at a good price.
So now I am looking for a motherboard to base my system on, which seems to be a bit difficult.
I need an mATX or ITX board that can handle six SATA drives and also have an NVME slot for a boot drive.
Performance, I value power efficiency more than super high performance, and am on the fence between Open Media Vault or TrueNAS, I like the familiarity of Linux, but I do value the features of ZFS.
If I end up on TrueNAS I may run a VM in the hypervisor from time to time, mostly just for testing.
The NAS will not be an HTPC, but will serve media through SMB and possibly NFS later.
Cooling could be a bit of an issue as the case does not have a lot of space for a cooler
Yeah, I am a bit weary of hwraid since I have no experience with it, I have some experience with software raid.
My initial plan was going with Linux set up an mdadm raid and run an LVM on top of it, though the more I think about it, it feel like more of a lab/experiment scenario, snd I may get another NAS build to lab with.
As it stands now, I’ll probably go with TrueNAS and ZFS since it will be running in “prod” at home.
I’d recommend ZFS or Btrfs over mdadm. They both have data repair if something goes wrong, and mdadm doesn’t.