Yes this is where I first heard of mergerfs/SnapRAID. But I didn’t realize this guide wasn’t using any software on top of Proxmox. I’ll read again, thanks!
I was comparing Proxmox and Unraid. I had ruled out TrueNAS because it only supports ZFS.
I was wrong about the RAM for ZFS, but another issue is that it doesn’t support different disk sizes
Indeed, it wasn’t clear that it was how it worked. That seems better than the cache/mover system from Unraid.
Another point as to why I didn’t consider ZFS, is that it only works with disks having the same capacities. As I will be adding disks over time, I think I will be wasting disk space
Thanks, I’ve seen Incus have an online demo, this is nice, I’ll give it a try.
For BTRFS, if I understand correctly, I can have a similar result as mergerfs if I use SINGLE. But as RAID5/6 is unstable it seems I would still need snapraid, or am I missing something?
Actually I wanted to have a NAS and another more powerful server. But this is because I thought NAS were some cheap basic servers…
When I saw the price I thought I might as well have a single more powerful server doing NAS + transcoding.
I haven’t made my mind up, I’ll check the Lenovo Tiny, thanks
Thanks. So If I take 5W a disk, I may have 20W just from the disks.
There are still 25W remaining. For a low power CPU that looks like a lot 😕