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Old-time Linuxer here but it's the first time I heard of either Ventoy, MergerFS or SnapRAID.

Ventoy is relatively new bootable USB creator supporting booting directly from ISOs instead of actually block by block copying (old fashioned - like dd or pv, quite like it). It works very well in most cases using popular distros, a bit glitchy on Macs LoL

Sounds like using mergerfs together with snapraid would work similar to the popular Unraid software but more diy.

Unraid provides real time data protection, whereas Snapraid with mergerfs provide disk pooling and scheduled snapshots. That's its greatest feature IMO - expandability and data protection without rigid expansion requirements.

AFAIK, it's one of a kind. Flexraid on Windows was the closest I had found (a product I still use on an old install - software and owner disappeared - although I did manage to track down the patent and the developer once, seems to have moved on to other interests/employment)

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