Looking at the behaviour, this is some really shady piece of software, changing credentials, adding scheduled tasks as an admin, etc.

Avoid.

It’s weird, because that’s my feeling too. It got suggested by customer support at a retailer when asking in their chat. I guess it’ll work, but feels backwards. I think I’m going with a NAS solution, and running the server without RAID

Thanks for the detailed response! I’ve looked around a bit, and a Synology DS220+ seems like a good starter. Knowing I have the ability to move comoutation to a server later on and keep using the NAS for storage makes it seem like a great setup for me

What do you think about running the OS and binaries on the SATA SSD, and storing the data on the M2’s? And having the M2’s in RAID1?

I’ve been considering a NAS, but haven’t looked to much into it. Could it be an idea to have both? Do you have any NAS reccomendations?

Thanks, I was thinking 2TB, so 4TB then! I’m considering a RAID1 setup, so the budget would need to accomodate that

I have been doing that for Plex and Web servers, but I want to expand it into my home, haha

c/lostLemmings