I personally think of a small DIY rack stuffed with commodity HDDs off Ebay with an LVM spanned across a bunch of RAID1s. I don’t want any complex architectural solutions since my homelab’s scale always equals 1. To my current understanding this has little to no obvious drawbacks. What do you think?
I have a few Ext4 drives connected and I mount them in /etc/fstab and that’s it.
I’ve yet to find a reason to change it.