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I have an idea to set up a home NAS on FreeBSD.
For this purpose, I bought a Lenovo ThinkCentre M720s SFF – it’s quiet, compact, and offers the possibility to install 2 SATA III SSDs plus a separate M.2 slot for an NVMe SSD.
What is planned:
on NVMe SSD: UFS and FreeBSD
on SATA SSDs: ZFS with RAID1
While waiting for the drives to arrive, let’s test how it all works on a virtual machine.
We will be installing FreeBSD 14.3, although version 15 is already out, but it has some interesting changes that I’ll play with separately.
Of course, I could have gone with TrueNAS, which is based on FreeBSD – but I want “vanilla” FreeBSD to do everything manually.
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