<html><head></head><body>Always diy. Buying premade is cheating.<br><br>Xfs or ext4. Unless you plan on shrinking a partition, xfs. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On November 30, 2018 3:26:19 PM EST, Alex Carver via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">I'm making a plan for some major network and hardware updates over the<br>next year at home. One of the things on the list has been a large-ish<br>NAS box for storing backup images of the various computers, recording<br>video from IP security cameras, and possibly just having a small shared<br>area for files that need to be shared among multiple computers and users.<br><br>Given the proliferation of various boxed NAS devices like Synology,<br>QNAP, etc. I wanted to find out what other people would consider doing,<br>whether they'd just get a boxed device or put together one from a<br>motherboard, some SATA cards and a case.<br><br><br><br>One other thing: what file system would you put on top of the array?<br>EXT4, Brtfs, something else?<hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. All tyopes are thumb related and reflect authenticity.</body></html>