[dangus]

My main point is that the article is applying artificial constraints as a reason to avoid using a gold-standard plug-and-play solution.

Basically, I’m saying that if you need this quantity of storage and storage performance, you’re best off not artificially constraining yourself to running on your existing box or using a non-NAS oriented Linux distribution. You’ll have a much easier time going with a single-purpose storage solution like TrueNAS where it’s running a dedicated OS on dedicated hardware.

It doesn’t really have to be ZFS-based, either, but most people in the homelab community seem to agree that TrueNAS is a top option.

I would say that suggesting a web GUI solution versus a bespoke thing like we see in the article isn’t exactly a “zealot”-like thing to do.