I posted last week about building a NAS, and on friday I saw that the Jonsbo N4 case I had been eyeing for a while was in stock at a good price.

So now I am looking for a motherboard to base my system on, which seems to be a bit difficult.

I need an mATX or ITX board that can handle six SATA drives and also have an NVME slot for a boot drive.

Performance, I value power efficiency more than super high performance, and am on the fence between Open Media Vault or TrueNAS, I like the familiarity of Linux, but I do value the features of ZFS.

If I end up on TrueNAS I may run a VM in the hypervisor from time to time, mostly just for testing.

The NAS will not be an HTPC, but will serve media through SMB and possibly NFS later.

Cooling could be a bit of an issue as the case does not have a lot of space for a cooler

    • kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      Instead of giving a unhelpfull response, point the op to where he’s question might be better suited.

      Like the selfhosted instance.

        • stoy@lemmy.zipOP
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          3 days ago

          I am an actual sysadmin, at my last place of work I was the only Linux sysadmin, I still worked mainly in a 365 environment as a Helpdesk technician and a VIP technician.

          At my current place of work I am a 365 admin.

          I thought that since building a NAS is in the interest of other sysadmins, and when I posted my last thread it was fine that I should continue.

          Especially since it seemed pretty dead since I posted the last time.

          Some semi-related content seemed better than no content.

          But if these questions are better served by another community, I will move there.

          And yes, /r/sysadmin is the best forum for getting help in the sysadmin world that I have used.