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Why is Windows (desktop versions) frowned upon as a home NAS/server OS?

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  • Copy on Write or COW comes to mind right away.

    The COW mode of operation brings some significant advantages. Since old data is not overwritten, recovery from crashes and power failures should be more straightforward; if a transaction has not completed, the previous state of the data (and metadata) will be where it always was. So, among other things, a COW filesystem does not need to implement a separate journal to provide crash resistance.

    Just found this, looks like some good info...https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/zfs-101-understanding-zfs-storage-and-performance/3/

    • Why is Windows (desktop versions) frowned upon as a home NAS/server OS?

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  • Windows uses the NTFS File system and TrueNAS uses the OpenZFS file system which is superior to NTFS for storing your data. I'd do some reading on the OpenZFS file system to check out the benefits over NTFS. Running TrueNAS is really easy, you can check it out on Youtube, (installation and configuration videos). The book FreeBSD Mastery:ZFS (Michael W Lucas, Allan Jude) is also a good read on everything ZFS.