Just be sure to feed them as much RAM as the board can support to make up for the lack of power from the CPU. As was mentioned, you can use the Atom processors with success as a low power motherboard solution. I've also used Solaris before the previous two offered de-duplication and encryption in their ZFS release versions. One of the easiest to use is either FreeNAS or NAS4Free. I have built several NAS machines using ZFS as the file system. I'll bet by the age of this thread that you've already moved on, but I'll put my two cents in for the sake of anyone else who still has questions on this matter. Something like a SonnetTech Thunderbolt PCIe bridge (ExpressCard or PCIe) combined with an eSATA or SAS card (or even a USB3 card) will be orders of magnitudes faster than regular USB2.
#Windows 10 openzfs mac
Of note if your Mac has Thunderbolt you can use that instead of USB2 or FireWire to connect multiple disks for ZFS. You should strive to have no virtual disks (vmdk files) hosted on HFS+ or NTFS but instead make one of the external disks (or an partition of your internal disk) bootable so you can boot it non-virtually without too much effort.
No need if your booting the same VM on both sides.
If your moving your pool between mac/windows (ZEVO VM) you'll want to zpool export poolname before switching.
You mentioned attaching it to your Mac, so you could either use something OSX native like ZEVO (formerly Z-410) or run a ZFS virtual machine just like you would from Windows 7. Each virtualization package does raw disks slightly differently, but VMWare Workstation, VMWare Fusion and VirtualBox all support it without too much effort.
#Windows 10 openzfs software
All the horror stories of virtualized ZFS issues come from some level of buffered IO from virtualization software buffers, disk controller cache or even windows with writethrough cache if you're dumb enough to use virtual disks instead of whole raw disks. ZFS goes to great length to keep your data from getting corrupted (checksums, copy-on-write, dittoblocks, mirrors or raid-z, etc) so you should do everything in your power to let ZFS directly access your disks. ZFS in virtual machine can work just fine if follow one simple rule never ever lie to ZFS.
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