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Unraid
Unraid is a paid NAS operating system popular for DIY builds. Its array mixes drive sizes and grows a disk at a time with single or dual parity, and its container/VM support is beginner-friendly. The trade versus ZFS is lower per-file performance for far more flexibility.
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