I'm looking to build a NAS for home use with 8-10*(2-4TB) drives, out of which 2-3 drives would be used for parity via software RAID.
In the past years and up to date, ZFS seems to have become the most suggested solution for such a scenario. However, ZFS comes with all those benefits at a price. It needs a powerful CPU, lots of ECC RAM(16GB+), and even some L2ARC SSDs, or else you'd be risking the following: slow transfer speeds and losing the whole array.
I'm thinking that I might find a less expensive solution, and obviously with less features that could suit a few things that I need:
- max needed RAM: 4-8GB ECC RAM
- less CPU hungry than ZFS, I'm thinking at an Athlon II 45W CPU
- no need for features like deduplication, snapshots, compression, etc
- protection from write-hole and other similar RAID issues(which I might not be aware of in this moment)
- some sort of data integrity checking/checksumming(it can be 3rd party)
Are you aware of such alternatives?