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  • ASUSTOR has NAS that can have up to 12 NVME SSDs (but speed is very limited by PCIE lanes).

    NVME SSDs are still very expensive compares to HDD.

    NAS that have many HDD bays are expensive but designed for easy setup and easy management.

    Fractal Design Define 7 (XL) can have up to 18 HDDs by design, but then you will need to search for PCIE to SATA cards and PSU that have many SATA connectors (for example RM850x/RM1000x) and Molex to SATA cables.

    FSP CMT370 is a much cheaper case with up to 3.5" HDD *9 or 2.5" SSD *10 but it’s not on amazon, it probably doesn’t sell to western world.

    SAS drive enclosures (and SAS cards) are also an option, but the cages might be very loud because they are designed for servers that also are very loud.



  • What do you recommend I do about disk partitions?

    I recommend separate EFI partitions while dual booting, I haven’t seem issues with my separate EFI partition setup yet.

    If Mint provides Btrfs filesystem I personally recommend looking into timeshift (snapshot software that can be setup to automatically snapshot your computer).

    Is disk encryption straightforward?

    According to Linux Mint forum, you need to choose an option in “Advanced features” while going through installer, that seems straight forward

    Is cloud storage sync straightforward?

    Don’t have experience with this but I can tell you: While rclone supports bi-directional sync, you need some setup for make it run periodically.

    Should I just use apt to install software?

    In the end you have to give trust to someone, I think it’s fair to say if you already choose Mint you probably trust whatever options comes with Mint more than 3rd party options (but is it theoretically possible that backdoored program exists in Mint repository? of course yes).