I currently have an HP micro server gen 8 with Xpenology with hybrid raid, which works fairly well, but I’m 2 major versions behind. I’m quite happy with it, but I-d like to have an easier upgrade process, and more options. My main use is NAS and a couple of apps. I’d like to have more flexibility, to easily have an arr suite, etc.
Considerdering the hassle of safely upgrading xpenology because of the hybrid raid (4+4+2+2 Gb HDDs) I-d like a setup which I can easily upgrade and modify.
What are my options here? What RAID options are there that easily and efficiently these these disks?
I don-t have the spare money right now to replace the 2Gb disks. Planned in the future
If you just want a NAS, TrueNAS core and zfs, probably.
If you want to run services, run docker on an OS on bare metal and either zfs or two mirrors, optionally joined with lvm. I don’t think I’d recommend putting all four disks in one array.
Personally I run a bunch of stuff, so I have docker on alma on proxmox.
Hah. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought of ZFS. I do have a project involving it though.