I’m going to try to build one tomorrow. Though unraid seems interesting and user friendly, I’ll be starting out with mergerfs and snapraid in vanilla Debian. Have got a 3.2TB enterprise SSD, so I want to try tiered caching too.
A lot of people swear by unraid. But I wanted to try configuration via ansible too, so will probably go the mergerfs+snapraid route.
I’ve used mergerfs for around 3 years in the form of a VM that just handles storage and shares the data with other VM/containers/computers via Samba.
Hardware I’m planning to use:
i7 8700
32 GB crucial ballistix RAM
MSI Z390 gaming plus
Samsung Oracle F320 for SSD storage
2 x 8 GB, 3 x 2 TB SATA hard drives for storage,
And Kingston SSD Now E100 for boot drive.