Modern NAS don't even need to be configured in a special way. I have a HP Microserver Gen8 (from 2013 with an old Intel Pentium) with HDDs and FreeNAS. My ZFS R

Modern NAS don't even need to be configured in a special way. I have a HP Microserver Gen8 (from 2013 with an old Intel Pentium) with HDDs and FreeNAS. My ZFS RAID-Z pushes 1G easily on sequential reads without any special things like SSD caches.