I'm fairly happy with my 4-bay Synology NAS. When I last looked at ZFS, it seemed that piecemeal upgrades - like, upgrade a 4TB drive to 8TB, and get more available space - wouldn't work in ZFS, but it would in SHR, at least if you had more than 2 drives.
Having scheduled checks is a good idea: I have weekly short SMART tests, monthly long SMART tests, and quarterly data scrubs.
The TinyPilot device looks nifty - it's a Raspberry Pi as a remote KVM switch. I stumbled on that last night as I was banging my head against a familial tech support issue.
Oh, my, you are right, the TinyPilot seems awesome! I see it was developed by the author of this ZFS NAS server blog post. I just ordered one to play with :)
Having scheduled checks is a good idea: I have weekly short SMART tests, monthly long SMART tests, and quarterly data scrubs.
The TinyPilot device looks nifty - it's a Raspberry Pi as a remote KVM switch. I stumbled on that last night as I was banging my head against a familial tech support issue.