What is the best way to check max read/write speed? Here is the output from lspci. Do you see anything strange?

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4e24 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation JasperLake [UHD Graphics] (rev 01) 00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Dynamic Tuning service 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 4ded (rev 01) 00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Device 4def (rev 01) 00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Serial IO I2C Host Controller (rev 01) 00:15.2 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 4dea (rev 01) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Management Engine Interface (rev 01) 00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 4dd3 (rev 01) 00:19.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 4dc5 (rev 01) 00:19.1 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 4dc6 (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4db8 (rev 01) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4db9 (rev 01) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4dba (rev 01) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4dbc (rev 01) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4dbd (rev 01) 00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4dbe (rev 01) 00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4dbf (rev 01) 00:1e.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 4da8 (rev 01) 00:1e.3 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 4dab (rev 01) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4d87 (rev 01) 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake HD Audio (rev 01) 00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake SMBus (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake SPI Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Silicon Motion, Inc. SM2263EN/SM2263XT SSD Controller (rev 03) 02:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB58x AHCI SATA controller 03:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Silicon Motion, Inc. SM2263EN/SM2263XT SSD Controller (rev 03) 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller I226-V (rev 04) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller I226-V (rev 04) 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller I226-V (rev 04) 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller I226-V (rev 04)

I’m very happy with my current N5105 board that I linked, even though it doesn’t have any PCI slots. With 6 SATA and two M.2s I should be ok. If necessary I can add a 6 SATA M.2 adapter to get up to 12, which is definitely more than I need. If/when I get 10gbe I would have to upgrade either of these to get those speeds. Although a M.2 PCI riser with a 10gbe card would get me ~7gb so that is also an option.

Any thoughts on these two boards? I don’t see any real disadvantages to the N100 board when compared to the N5105.

I will be running Truenas scale with ZFS, so will be installing 32GB of memory.

I realize a full size PCI slot would be better, but not really necessary for my application. Both have 6 SATA and two M.2s. I could put a 6 SATA/M.2 adapter in when I need more HDs. I’m really just comparing these two, and I don’t really see any disadvantages to the N100 board.

I believe your characterization of the developers is unfair. This appears to be an isolated incident by a single developer, and to take that and paint a picture of the entire team as dickholes isn’t right. I’m not even sure judging this individual by his worst day is fair, but that is up to you.

How would you setup a NAS like system through Proxmox? Personally I would not be using zfs.