Debian user here. All people have a doorkey. Some people have an alarm system as well. Infosec is about ’ what do you have and what do you know '. So in principle TPM is a defencible argument. You should absolutely bail from MS products for different reasons. Like privacy. Your PC isn’t yours anymore. Your NPU will reduce THEIR costs. Etc.
Don’t enter Linux thinking its a drop in replacement. Go slow and do ‘ships in the night’. Move data over to the new ship. Start embracing OSS on windows, it’ll be familiar when you finally bail. G luck.
I’m not sure it’s going to work like you hope it will. Your enclosure can run ‘raid’ but zfs doesn’t like raid. As far as ‘jbod’ thru one esata cable…thats not how zfs likes it either.
Your best bet is to buy a m2/nvme to 5 sata port adapter so zfs can distinguish each drive. But then… the question is if your enclosure allows that.
I love mini pc’s but for zfs there’s not a lot of wriggle room. High end ones have dual nvme ports allowing for zfs mirror. Other than that you’ll have to go said sata_nvme + an enclosure that powers all disks but allows for individual sata cables. It’s gonna be clunky macgyvering too.
If I’m wrong I’ll accept the flak.
Jim Salter, the former mod of r/zfs ? Former Ars Technica ? Currently in the ’ 2.5 Admins’ podcast?
He’s the hot knife of butter FS.
I bought a HP elitedesk G3 800 mini pc and managed to install an ‘M2 to ethernet card’ in the wifi port. Avoid HP G2 mini as they have a capacitator too close to the M2 wifi slot.
It’s a bit macgyvering to secure it to the rear of the chassis though. You’ll need 2 longer nvme screws and some hard plastic to secure it to the mobo.