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
what? are you kidding or just being dumb? you can restore a raid on different hardware with the hardware configuration tools
as long as the drives and the raid are fine, it will rebuild
Yes, you have to put in different hardware. (Almost definitely the same brand, maybe even same model.) It’s inaccessible until you get that hardware and replace it. I didn’t mean permanently. A software RAID will work in any system.