This article is the first of a four-part series on building your own NAS on FreeBSD. This series will cover:

1. Selecting a storage drive interface that meets your capacity and performance requirements both now and into the future.
2. Why it makes sense to build your own NAS using FreeBSD rather than installing a NAS distribution (even a FreeBSD-based one). We’ll also discuss which configuration and tuning settings are needed.
3. The nitty-gritty on sharing: configuring NFS, Samba, and iSCSI shares.
4. Software maintenance and monitoring your NAS. //

https://klarasystems.com/articles/part-2-tuning-your-freebsd-configuration-for-your-nas/

https://klarasystems.com/articles/part-3-building-your-own-freebsd-based-nas-with-zfs/