I’ve used OmniOS as well and found it stable and efficient. I ran a RAIDZ1 and used rclone to back up and scripted it. It has a —back-dir switch which will move files to another folder you can specify before it overwrites the file.
It was stable and never crashed. If you’re trying to do other things like stream media it won’t be the best option. I don’t think softraid supports RAID5 On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM Lloyd <ng2...@proton.me> wrote: > Take a look at OmniOS for NAS use. Very underrated IMHO. ZFS, integrated > NFS and SMB server. Based on Illumos code so uses Solaris conventions. Only > catch is the hardware support isn't great. > > Piotr K. Isajew wrote: > > > I want to build a NAS for my home network of OpenBSD > > machines. I have a 4x8TB HDD machine to use for this > > purpose. Primary role of this machine would be a dump and > > pg_dump destination, but also a backup storage for some essential > > files that are not part of regular backups (i.e. photos / music > > archive) accessible as NFS export. > > > > I'd like to avoid using FreeBSD, but ZFS has some tempting > > features like data corruption detection and correction and I > > don't want to put a file to archive just to discover that it's > > unreadable five years later. Do you use OpenBSD for your home > > NAS? If yes, do you just rely on softraid to protect against data > > loss or do you supplement it with something? > >
