Collection of notes and resources related to building my own NAS:

https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/manufacturer-recertified-drives

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/zfs-101-understanding-zfs-storage-and-performance/

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(?)