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.