Storage Planner

Overview

Storage Planner is a web app for planning and visualizing RAID storage configurations. Whether you're building a home NAS, designing a ZFS pool, or comparing redundancy strategies, it gives you usable capacity, formatted size, read/write speed estimates, and a reliability score — all in real time.

Platform Support

Storage Planner Docker images are built for multiple architectures:

• linux/amd64 — Standard x86_64 systems
• linux/arm64 — 64-bit ARM (Raspberry Pi 4, AWS Graviton, Apple Silicon)
• linux/arm/v7 — 32-bit ARM (Raspberry Pi 3 and earlier)

Docker automatically pulls the correct image for your architecture.

Quick Start

Using Docker

docker pull ghcr.io/buildthehomelab/storage-planner:latest
docker run -p 3000:3000 ghcr.io/buildthehomelab/storage-planner:latest

Visit http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

Features

• Multiple file system support

  • ZFS with custom vdev configuration (RAID-Z1/Z2/Z3, Mirror, Striped)
  • Unraid (1–3 parity drives)
  • Synology SHR and Synology BTRFS
  • SnapRAID (1–6 parity)
  • Standard RAID (0, 1, 5, 6, 10)

• Interactive drive visualization

  • Server rack bay UI — up to 24 bays, supports 1–30 TB drives
  • ZFS vdev builder with visual grouping

• Detailed performance metrics

  • Estimated read/write speeds
  • Usable capacity and storage efficiency
  • Reliability score (0–100)
  • Raw vs. formatted capacity

• Side-by-side comparison mode

  • Compare two configurations across capacity, efficiency, read/write speed, and reliability

• Educational resources

  • Inline explanations of RAID types, ZFS vdevs, and SnapRAID

Technologies

• Framework: Next.js 15 (App Router)
• UI: React 18
• Styling: Tailwind CSS
• Containerization: Docker

Use Cases

• Home NAS planning — Visualize storage configurations before buying hardware
• ZFS pool design — Experiment with vdev layouts for performance and redundancy
• Upgrade planning — Calculate the benefit of adding drives to an existing array
• Learning — Understand RAID levels and their trade-offs interactively

Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/my-feature)
3. Commit your changes
4. Push to the branch
5. Open a Pull Request

License

Apache 2.0 — see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgements

• ZFS Documentation
• Synology Knowledge Base
• SnapRAID Documentation
• Unraid Documentation