I am using Debian with ZoL, but it's now ancient. Just ZFS + NFS & SMB. https://louwrentius.com/71-tib-diy-nas-based-on-zfs-on-linux.html https://louwrentius.c

I am using Debian with ZoL, but it's now ancient. Just ZFS + NFS & SMB. https://louwrentius.com/71-tib-diy-nas-based-on-zfs-on-linux.html https://louwrentius.com/71-tib-diy-nas-based-on-zfs-on-linux... I would now go for Ubuntu + ZoL myself. I bought all capacity up front and paid the ZFS tax. So I don't need to expand as I go. But if you want to expand as you go, Linux + MDADM are still fine in my opinion. It's a tradeoff. Do you want to 'pay' the ZFS tax and expand at a cost, or do you want a bit more risk (on paper) but more flexibility? I ran a RAID6 of 20 drives before that using Linux + MDADM and that worked fine. And MDADM allows you to expand as you go, exactly as you want. I think the risks ZFS protect against are very small. https://louwrentius.com/what-home-nas-builders-should-understand-about-silent-data-corruption.html https://louwrentius.com/what-home-nas-builders-should-unders...