Building a Home Server/NAS
Filesystem-level software RAID (Btrfs, ZFS, etc) is always preferable to chipset-driven pseudo-hardware RAID, because if anything happens to your hardware you can easily import the array/pool into another OS that recognizes that filesystem.
Download TrueNAS Scale or Unraid and give them a test drive. It won't cost you anything but time just to kick the tires. There are plenty of channels out there like Craft Computing that can walk you through the setup process. Play with it and experiment before putting any data you care about onto it, though!
Once you've picked which one you want to use, you might want to get a cheap 32 or 64 gig Optane SSD as your boot drive. Generally you want to keep your boot volume separate from your data.
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