Hi SNB Forum,
this is my first post in this forum, so please excuse any possible oversights about the forum rules and customs.
I am seeking advice for which file system and operating system I should choose for my custom build NAS. Any help is appreciated.
I am currently building my very first NAS:
ASRock N100DC-ITX
32 GB RAM
1x 2 TB M.2 SSD for Cache (and possibly NAS OS)
2x 18 TB HDDs (Possibly up to 4 more in future with some SATA PCI card. Even then, I will only use one parity HDD.)
1x external 18 TB Backup (for infrequent manual backups)
The NAS will host some home automation and possibly some simple services like a password manager, Nextcloud and alike. However, I will mainly use this NAS as an infrequent backup for my various devices, so I don't care about the performance at all. The HDDs should be able to spin down and not run 24/7, without too much strain on them. So, UnRaid came to my mind at first. Especially if I increase the number of HDDs in the future.
However, in my life I have experienced multiple occasions of bitrot and am quite vary of this threat to my data. So I am quite envious of something like ZFS with automatic self-healing ZPools.
Is there something out there, which can do both and possibly work well with my other Linux, Android, and Windows devices alike?
Thanks in advance for any guidance
this is my first post in this forum, so please excuse any possible oversights about the forum rules and customs.
I am seeking advice for which file system and operating system I should choose for my custom build NAS. Any help is appreciated.
I am currently building my very first NAS:
ASRock N100DC-ITX
32 GB RAM
1x 2 TB M.2 SSD for Cache (and possibly NAS OS)
2x 18 TB HDDs (Possibly up to 4 more in future with some SATA PCI card. Even then, I will only use one parity HDD.)
1x external 18 TB Backup (for infrequent manual backups)
The NAS will host some home automation and possibly some simple services like a password manager, Nextcloud and alike. However, I will mainly use this NAS as an infrequent backup for my various devices, so I don't care about the performance at all. The HDDs should be able to spin down and not run 24/7, without too much strain on them. So, UnRaid came to my mind at first. Especially if I increase the number of HDDs in the future.
However, in my life I have experienced multiple occasions of bitrot and am quite vary of this threat to my data. So I am quite envious of something like ZFS with automatic self-healing ZPools.
Is there something out there, which can do both and possibly work well with my other Linux, Android, and Windows devices alike?
Thanks in advance for any guidance