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His personal system is MacOS but I know he works on windows at work. I believe ZFS is an option. I guess, the easier the better. Something that isn’t a ginormous project. I suggested a home server with Truenas, just because that’s what I have. I don’t want to send him down that route if there is an easy option he can just buy and go and be satisfied he met at least RAID 1 safety net.
Whenever I hear MacOS, just assume complete and utter incompetence on my part. I still don't know how to right click to open a context menu.
But for a more general approach, how portable does it have to be, and how much storage would be ideal? A few TB, or are we talking about PB?
He already owns 2 8tb 2.5inch SSDs he is looking to house
Personally, I'd have some sort of enclosure that could also house a raspberry pi and similar, which mounts those disks in ZFS and shares them via NFS. That'd ensure compatibility with any OS, but it might be overkill.