Build a Lean ZFS NAS on Debian and Keep Your Data Portable
The guide walks you through a bare‑bones ZFS NAS on Debian 12, using RAIDZ1 across four 4 TB NVMe SSDs and Samba shares—no GUI, no TrueNAS. It highlights ZFS’s self‑contained metadata, so you can swap the host OS or hardware and simply run zfs import to recover your pool, guaranteeing data portability.