Anecdotally I went through a severe bout of IBS-C in my early 20s and the "cure" was to cut out wheat and dairy for an extended period of time (about a year and a half), at which point I was able to reintroduce them into my diet and I've been ~fine for about 20 years now. I've hypothesized that the lining of my intestine(s) had been damaged by the proteins and/or starches/sugars in those foods and needed a break and time to heal. I'm not a medical professional and my hypothesis has never been confirmed by one.
I had a similar experience with dairy. (Wheat is still out.) It used to give me severe digestive symptoms and inflammation, but after cutting it out for a year or so, I've been able to reintroduce it without any noticeable symptoms. No GI I've seen has really had answers for me, and I'm not really interested in seeing an "alternative medicine" doctor, although I'm sure they would claim to know what's going on. But I'd recommend trying an elimination diet to anyone who has unexplainable symptoms in that vein. The limitations are annoying at first, but you get used to it.
It's pathogenic yeasts that really drive the whole thing, and milk inflames the immune response. The trick with COVID is to take melatonin during and after it. Gut health is a longer journey as leaky gut takes awhile to heal.
I drink two cups of coffee a day (in the morning and after lunch), and I put a tablespoon of mct oil in each of them.
In the first few days I had minor diarrhea, probably it makes sense to introduce it more incrementally to avoid that.
This is what I was thinking too. If you are going to use a different box, why not use a more feature rich solution that is much less difficult to configure?
I built my most-recent ZFS pool on 2x18 drives, mirroring pairs "crossed" across drives. The SAS models are easier to work with because they present as two LUNs. Wendell from Level1Techs wrote some scripts (easy to find on the L1T forum) to make it easier to split up the SATA models into two partitions that can then be used as mostly-independent "logical units."
In general I've been happy with it but buying the drives new probably wasn't worth the cost. ServerPartDeals has refurbished SATA drives for $210 and that's an attractive price. It's great for smaller deployments where you might have a limited number of 3.5" drive slots available but need to hit certain sequential throughout and IOPS numbers.
Of course used enterprise SSDs are probably a better choice if you can find a good deal and buy extra redundancy.
I'm adopting this immediately. I always make little "oops <topic>" commits like "oops GET users/me" and then manually move and fixup them on my next interactive rebase. This is much better!