2016-06-24, 03:50
I've been using DriveBender for some years now, which only pools drives but offers no parity or redundancy, other than allowing file duplication for 1:1 redundancy, but nothing more efficient that that. My film school projects and important stuff are in redundant folders but all media is unprotected. This past weekend a 5TB drive went sideways, I rushed out and got an 8TB to replace it and was able to remove the 5TB from the pool, emptying it of data, without any loss. But now that I'm approaching 20TB, this is starting to seem stupid. I'd been considering parity for some time and when I got the replacement 8TB drive I also got a second one which is still unused, which I could use for some parity options.
...So what should I use? I'm looking for single disk failure protection with the ability to add more drives as needed. Adding additional parity drives to increase protection if I want would also be nice. My server runs Windows 10 Professional so it must run windows. In the event of critical failure, I'd like to be able to see 'files' on any drive that gets forcefully removed or that survives a large scale failure as I get with DriveBender.
FlexRAID? SnapRAID? UnRAID? I'm not sure, I've tried reading their sites but they seem to offer more 'marketing bullshit' than 'useful technical information on use cases and scenarios'. So which way should I look at going?
...So what should I use? I'm looking for single disk failure protection with the ability to add more drives as needed. Adding additional parity drives to increase protection if I want would also be nice. My server runs Windows 10 Professional so it must run windows. In the event of critical failure, I'd like to be able to see 'files' on any drive that gets forcefully removed or that survives a large scale failure as I get with DriveBender.
FlexRAID? SnapRAID? UnRAID? I'm not sure, I've tried reading their sites but they seem to offer more 'marketing bullshit' than 'useful technical information on use cases and scenarios'. So which way should I look at going?