I recently got a few (5) hard drives to turn my home server into a NAS with trueNAS scale and my idea is to have 4 usable and 1 for redundancy, my question is… How does RAID work, like what is RAID 0, RAID 5, software RAID etc, and does any of that even matter for my use case?
I don’t wanna use TrueNAS Core, as I’m not planning to use it as “just a NAS”, I also plan to run a few other things on it, like pihole, searxng, wireguard, (maybe) nextcloud and a few other things. Other than that, I’m just not as familiar with BSD as I am with linux, nor do I particularly care to familiarize myself with it. As for ZFS, I’m still not sure about it, but looking at all the other options, it does look like the most straight forward and secure way to go, to me anyways…