• That power situation looks suspicious. You better know what you’re doing so you don’t run into undercurrent events under load.
• Use ZFS RAIDz1 instead of RAID 5.

Ultimately I would love to use ZFS but I read that it’s difficult to expand/upgrade. Not familiar with ZFS RAIDz1 though, I’ll look into it. Thanks!

I build robots for a living, the power is fine, at least for a rough draft. I’ll clean everything up once the enclosure is set up.