Cat6 jacks are slightly different in their layout and crimping.

They’re 100% compatible with all your existing ports, however they do require a cat6 compatible crimper which crimps slightly deeper than on cat5.

So likely you’re having trouble because the pins are not deep enough and are preventing the jack from being insertable.

For me it’s either 600m to a small corner shop or about 1.1km to a larger store.

I do 3km periodically for another store, but I wouldn’t do it in 30c weather. I’m barely willing to exercise in 25c weather.

+1 for Unraid, as it’s what I use, but truenas I believe has array options which support your plans no problem. It’ll do a similar software raid solution which allows you to modify the drive pool later on.

Thanks for the share.

I’ve actually just ordered one for myself as they officially support third party operating systems. I intend to be setting up unraid on it.