First, thanks for the work!
The sentence on page 9
Basically, the community’s approach is “If you’re going to do it, do it right” got me thinking - I wondering if some of the discussions that keep coming up with new people in the forums are based on different standards of keeping data safe - the ZFS/FreeNAS people ("us") really,
really want to secure their data, whereas there are a lot of people who just, you know, like, want a place to sorta-kinda put their files. Maybe we could add something to that effect in the intro, so the people know what they are getting into, and those who are just looking for something more casual realize early on that they might be in the wrong place?
Since a big red label "Warning: Paranoid Data Security Freaks" is probably out of the question, maybe we put something like that in the second paragraph:
This document assumes that the user wants a very, very reliable server to keep data as safe as humanly possible down to the very last bit, not just some place to dump a bunch of files. Such a server will be built to take maximum advantage of FreeNAS' -- and thus ZFS' --strengths. Accordingly, these recommendations are very different from typical gaming or general work builds.
Then, we could split the third paragraph and add the "big red label" part to the new paragraph:
The community is very welcoming of users asking for help with their builds, as long as the suggested build has been researched – it’s normal that questions will arise or that details will be overlooked and the community will gladly help. Having said that, it should be noted that quite a number of people in the community are proudly paranoid with respect to data safety, and tend to expect this mindset in others as well. Basically, the approach here is “If you’re going to do it, do it right”.
Then we can delete the last line from the EEC entry - it's a really good one, I feel, and should come a lot earlier.
Again, thanks for all the work! I hope to read the whole thing this evening.
