Collection of notes and resources related to building my own NAS:
https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/manufacturer-recertified-drives
https://openzfs.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsY-BafQgj4
- you can have redundancy at the HW layer (raid) or the software layer (ZFS), both have their pros/cons, and a quick comment mentions that ZFS is seen more often at the prosumer level
- NAS motherboard mainly concerns the connectors and upgradeability of your NAS
- performance is more related to CPU/RAM/GPU(?)