Editing Storage (section)

==== Scale-Out Software Defined Storage====
Unless you have a seriously impressive budget, standard SDS solutions are likely to be something you play with in the lab, more than something which you run your lab on. The main reason for this is that it would require you to run multiple physical nodes dedicated to storage only, which most of us don't / cant afford to do. In an enterprise solution SDS is awesome as it allows you to scale as you grow, and make incremental hardware investments as you require additional capacity. Unless you are running many terabytes of data in your homelab, you are simply not going to need the scalability which SDS afford you.

The one exception to this is probably object storage, where most object storage software is based on scale-out by default, and as such would be appropriate in a homelab environment, even if in reality you actually ended up virtualising it anyway.