Thanks! I’ll check it out.

Most people here are the exact opposite of you and don’t trust hardware RAID especially cheap implementations in a USB based DAS box. Software RAID is far more flexible and makes your setup independent of the hardware RAID cad dying.

Yeah I definitely get that. All the DAS I see with hardware raid look like shit. I mostly don’t trust software raid being run on a separate machine. I have read stories of losing all the data even after shutdown properly and attaching the DAS after moving or something.

I am using a mac mini, it would be much easier if I was just using a full desktop computer, very easy build.

I would like to jump over to it. I have been struggling with Nginx and Apache and I am afraid I have made a mess of things. I am installing on an old Mac Mini with Mac OS so I don’t really have a way to isolate and remove Nginx and Apache and I have a feeling if I try Caddy I will get some interferences.