How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS on Debian 12 (No TrueNAS, Synology, or QNAP)
Build a minimal ZFS NAS on Debian 12 without TrueNAS, Synology, or QNAP: install OpenZFS, create a RAIDZ1 zpool with the right ashift, structure datasets, then share via Samba. The result is simple storage you can recover by importing the pool after rebuilding the OS.