2013-02-06, 09:36
There seem to be lots on unraid and flexraid builds here.
I tried UnRAID. I didn't really like it.. the out of the box experience was pretty poor and you needed to chuck a lot of addons at it to get it half reasonable... which irked me as they charge for it. The performance was also not great.
Furthermore the slackware base isn't the easiest for doing anything funky with it (maybe as I'm used to Ubuntu/Debian)
Haven't tried flexraid, but it looks a good option for anyone wanting to add RAID functionality to an existing WIndows build.
However, if you're going to be building a server something dedicated to the task will always work better. That's why I went with OpenMediaVault - It's written by one of the devs from FreeNAS but it debian rather than BSD based.
I have a 4 disk RAID5 (I grew it from a 3 disk setup without issues) and it works beautifully. I have installed tvheadend on mine so have PVR server functionality.
There is a nice script on the forum for installing CouchPotato etc. if that's your thing. (I tried it out of interest, but don't use newsgroups)
http://openmediavault.org/
I tried UnRAID. I didn't really like it.. the out of the box experience was pretty poor and you needed to chuck a lot of addons at it to get it half reasonable... which irked me as they charge for it. The performance was also not great.
Furthermore the slackware base isn't the easiest for doing anything funky with it (maybe as I'm used to Ubuntu/Debian)
Haven't tried flexraid, but it looks a good option for anyone wanting to add RAID functionality to an existing WIndows build.
However, if you're going to be building a server something dedicated to the task will always work better. That's why I went with OpenMediaVault - It's written by one of the devs from FreeNAS but it debian rather than BSD based.
I have a 4 disk RAID5 (I grew it from a 3 disk setup without issues) and it works beautifully. I have installed tvheadend on mine so have PVR server functionality.
There is a nice script on the forum for installing CouchPotato etc. if that's your thing. (I tried it out of interest, but don't use newsgroups)
http://openmediavault.org/