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

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Why use a hardware RAID? If your controller dies, your data is inaccessible. Software RAID with something like ZFS or Btrfs is safer.

    • thisbenzingring
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      2 days ago

      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

      • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 day ago

        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.