>If you’re new to the homelab world or have no experience building PCs, I recommend that you don’t build your own NAS. >Before building this system, I had zero

>If you’re new to the homelab world or have no experience building PCs, I recommend that you don’t build your own NAS. >Before building this system, I had zero experience with ZFS, so I was excited to try it out. Sorry, but this is amusing to me. ZFS on TrueNAS is probably fine, but you're building your production NAS, to replace the Synology device you've become "so dependent on". Don't become dependent on ZFS without knowing the implications! I was facing this choice recently, and I agreed with the other tech savy person in the household that we should just use good old LVM + Btrfs. Not only does it run like a charm, but it also allowed us to switch the LV from single (during the data move) to RAID 1 and eventually to RAID 5/6 with zero issues. It will also be much easier to recover from than ZFS. On another note, it's a bad market to buy NAS drives, especially from Seagate. Seagate Exos drives are at this point in time often cheaper than IronWolf, even non Pro IronWolf. They're slightly more noisy and don't come with the free data recovery, but otherwise they're a straight upgrade over the IronWolf drives.