RiverElf

Sounds good! unRAID looks very appealing to me. Being new to NAS one of the things I'm trying to learn more about, is how data integrity and data safety in unRAID compares to other solutions like ZFS and OpenMediaVault with the SnapRAID plugin - both of which appear to run a checksum before data is written to parity which should help protect against silent errors / bitrot. I'll probably start a thread about that in the relevant forum. It sounds like you haven't had any problems with bitrot, which is reassuring

Ha! yeah, it sounds quite advanced to someone like me. I'll try not to get cut if I ever dare go there. Nice to know that with this plugin there appears to be a way to run both ZFS and unRAID on the same system - if one has the knowledge and experience to do it safely

Thanks for your reply! When you write: " so if you want to export your pools to nfs or samba you need to do it manually." I suppose you mean by command line interface? I've got so much to learn

At the moment I am learning about NAS basics and the different server software solutions that exist. I am trying to understand what this ZFS plugin adds to unRAID. Does it allow one to run an array of drives with ZFS in a system which otherwise runs unRAID? So you could run 4-6 identical drives with ZFS in RAID-Z2 and the rest of the drives in the system with unRAID?