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  • Personally I use a ZFS pool in my Linux homelab that’s been rock solid. However the pucker factor would be high if a drive fails.

    I use a ZFS pool for my home stuff too.
    To minimize the pucker factor, I have an extra drive of the same capacity and I rotate through them in the mirror pool.
    It makes good practice replacing and resilvering drives and since it’s a mirror it’s also kind of an offline backup.
    Also, I had bought the initial drives at the same time and figured rotating though them would minimize the odds of failing around the same time.
    I’m much less wary of the whole thing now that I’ve resilvered the drives several times.