series Custom NAS on ZFS and MSI B250M PRO-VD
Three pools on a board from 2016: tank on three IronWolf in raidz1, fast on a pair of NVMe behind a PCIe switch, rpool mirrored on a PCIe x1 splitter. Writeups are the decisions and the build; worklogs are the raw lists in between.
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writeup Custom NAS #1: Recon and Decision Making
Recon for a home NAS on ZFS and NixOS: why not Synology, what goes on which disks, and how an old MSI B250M board ends up with 10 Gbit, an NVMe cluster and a mirrored OS on a PCIe x1 slot.
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worklog Custom NAS #2: Hardware list
Every part of the NAS with the price and where it came from, the pool layout, failure model, how long a resilver takes on 6 TB drives, and what it costs to run.