And for completion here are some tips in general for NAS: Use backup. NAS is not a backup. It is a part of backup, never forget this. Always have backup on a different media (or different NAS) and off site if possible! Use hard disks and SSDs from different vendors always. You may be unlucky and receive media from a problematic batch and have multiple failures during the recovery. Use RaidZ2 or RAID6 or better to reduce the risk of completely losing the data. Use high quality PSU. A NAS runs all the time, so selecting PSUs with GOLD certification or better can reduce your power consumption. Use UPS or at least an AVR. It is a very bad idea to stop a NAS system without proper shutdown procedure. Don't overuse the NAS server with multiple VMs/docker instances/Jain instances. Keep it simple! Here are some tips and tricks from my TrueNAS home NAS server. In my previous post I analyzed the reasons for using TrueNAS instead of Linux distributions (ZFS, stability etc). After two months
