BTRFS for raid mirroring is fine, but any raid 5 you should steer away from.
I use is on VM’s and laptops all the time, wrapped with LUKS. I also like it for a home server, where I combine bcache (not bcachefs) with it, so I can have a 512g nvme cache in combination with two 16 TB spinning disks. Run tons of containers on it and it’s rock solid. The cache really helps the performance. It’s a file server, few web sites, a gitlab, a ghost host, nextcloud, media server, backup server, vm host, and more. And it’s chugged along great for 3 years.
BTRFS for raid mirroring is fine, but any raid 5 you should steer away from.
I use is on VM’s and laptops all the time, wrapped with LUKS. I also like it for a home server, where I combine bcache (not bcachefs) with it, so I can have a 512g nvme cache in combination with two 16 TB spinning disks. Run tons of containers on it and it’s rock solid. The cache really helps the performance. It’s a file server, few web sites, a gitlab, a ghost host, nextcloud, media server, backup server, vm host, and more. And it’s chugged along great for 3 years.