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for home server needs I would definatley use Flexraid.
It is simple and just works. I have been using it just over a year and have had one hdd fail and it rebuilt no problem.
Because of the fact that it runs on windows I can keep ember running to scan for new media and add metadata
It also acts as a nzb downloader.
AND i run a program called Orb which streams my media to my iphone or any other pc when im out and about.
The reason I went with flexraid over unraid is simple, on windows I can do alot more, my home server can do alot more tasks that are required of it rather than if I was just using unraid.
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2010-10-30, 20:38
(This post was last modified: 2010-10-30, 20:43 by cg5150.)
NASLite is good. I used to use FreeNAS myself, but switched over to FlexRAID because I wanted to run the server on Windows for some other applications I needed on there.
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Is anyone concerned about stability using a windows + flexraid? When I was planning my setup, I didn't want anything that could damage my files, so I made a simple ubuntu file server and was done with it. I eventually plan to use flexraid once I have enough drives. I am planning to build a windows htpc that does all the scraping and ripping over the network.
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I am currently using FreeNAS but am considering a switch to Ubuntu Server. I still need to weight my options. I want to run torrents, SABnzbd, Couch Potato, Sick Beard, etc.
Would be nice to automate fan art and all of those goodies as well... not quite sure which platform would best suite my needs at this time!
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I'll toss another vote for an Ubuntu + mdadm [software] raid solution. Can run any apps you want + tons of online documentation to help you out. Ember Media Manager running in Virtualbox does a very nice job of offline media management.
Recently had a power supply fail on my server...mdadm resync interrupted 4 times during debugging of the problem and finally once sorted out and resynced everything still 100% fine.
I get 110 MB/s writes over gigabit to the mdadm raid5 plus very flexible...the other solutions offer pros/cons as well but I don't see as many positives if you want to do other things on your server.
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Does anyone worry about bit rot? Other than ZFS it seems to me this is a potential issues for all the systems.
I use an unraid server and keep mirror copies of everything on a Win7 desktop machine. I still worry about corruption creeping in undetected. When a drive fails the repair is simple - rebuild from parity (or mirror or backup). If files become corrupt through bit rot it's not clear to me how the stuff we're talking about here catches it.
With unraid I can run the parity check whenever i want (usually monthly) and I suppose that should catch it but I'm not sure where that would leave me. I think it would reveal that I have a problem but I wouldn't know which of my 5 data disks or parity disk actually suffered the bad bit.
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Has anyone used ZFS FUSE for Ubuntu? I wonder if I can import my existing zpool (RAIDZ) from my FreeNAS system and easily convert to Ubuntu... that would make my switch much easier.
At this time, I am still trying to determine how feasible it is to run everything I desire on my current FreeNAS. This could potentially be easier than backing up all of my data and starting from scratch with Ubuntu.
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Yes. You can import from FreeNAS. You can always import older, you can never import newer.
FreeNAS/FreeBSD is stuck on something like version 14. ZFS Fuse is something like 23.
I do use ZFS Fuse on my girlfriend's server. No redundancy, just 1 disk in a zpool. It scrubs weekly. She's not got anything important on the drive, I just want an early warning on when it is going to start failing.
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