Post #1398744
2026-04-17 21:45 UTC
I'm going to be setting up 16 drives in a raid array. Whats my best bet for this for my home lab NAS? Hardware based vs software based raid array? Whats a good os for NAS machines? FreeBSD does nice things with zfs storage doesn't it?
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Replies (3)
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@fwaggle@moodoo.org 2026-04-17 21:53
@dorian@retro.social mdraid vs ZFS vs btrfs etc are all personal choice. I personally like ZFS, and I like FreeBSD but currently run it on Linux because familiarity with it for $WORK, but they're all fairly sound. There's basically zero reason to run hardware raid in 2026 though. You gain almost nothing in modern computing and introduce a slew of new potential problems.
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@t0maz@floss.social 2026-04-18 09:57
@dorian@retro.social I gave a go #FreeBSD with #OpenZFS few years ago and I’m still happy 😃
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@woof@meow.social 2026-04-18 11:28
@dorian@retro.social Software is definitely the better option these days, ZFS is great and works on Linux too. If you want a nice manager for VMs and LXC containers then Proxmox handles ZFS nicely too. Otherwise just plain Debian is my go-to.