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I set up Nextcloud with RPi4 based RAID NAS. Via sftp as apparently it is not really that much slower and NFS felt weird to me
I bet my answer is going to be the least interesting one but let's represent casuals too ;)
Keep it simple, stupid my friend :D
Well, now I see that I'm going to move to have sshfs instead. There are issues with spamming sftp connections for all the small files. But in general I've learned that really "done is better than perfect". Just make it work, observe, iterate