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Moot point. It really depends on your expectations.

Self-hosting 10TB in an enterprise context is trivial.

Self hosting 10TB at home is easy.

The thing is: once you learn enough ZFS, whether you’re hosting 10 or 200TB it doesn’t change much.

The real challenge is justifying to yourself spending for all those disks. But if it’s functional to yourself spending hobby…





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