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    Advice on controller for SSD cache + Raid 10 in Win10

    Unless you have plans to add more hard drives soon, I'd suggest you consider spending the money on a NVMe SSD and a PCI-E 4x adapter instead and use Windows Storage Spaces to setup a mirrored pool using the NVMe drive as a cache. Use the existing SSDs as the system drives. There are two...
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    InWin mITX NAS Chassis

    Patrick, have you looked at the SilverStone "Case Storage Series"? They don't have removable motherboard trays but they all have hot-swap drives (w/backplane). The mini-itx cases are the CS01-HS (2.5x6 + 2.5x internal), CS280 (2.5x8 1x2.5 internal), CS380 (3.5x8 + 4x2.5 internal). I have the...
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    PFSense as VM

    One compelling argument against virtualizing a router (of any type) is that bringing down the hypervisor for updates/fixes often requires internet access. If the activity goes bad (you need additional packages, look up a config setting etc) you're SOL because your network connection is down...