How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS
Summary
A practical, GUI-free guide to building a minimal ZFS-based NAS on Debian. It covers hardware and software decisions, creating a RAIDZ1 zpool with ashift=12, setting up ZFS datasets, and sharing via Samba for documents and Time Machine backups, with notes on OpenZFS portability across hosts.