2010-10-17, 00:50
gadgetman Wrote:@beckstown: thank you that was exactly the point.
You are welcome
PatrickVogeli Wrote:thanks! You made it a little more clear to me
After reading this, I'm sure that if I ever build a NAS (and I will, sure), I'll go with unRaid. I'm a home user, unRaid is OK for me, and has a few advantages over Freenas with ZFS.
I can't consider having a 2 or 3 drive parity setup and I can't consider adding a drive and not getting its full capacity from the very begining.
Also, I'm curious to know how a 2/3 drive parity works... 1 parity drive is easy, you simply count how many bits are '1' over the drives and the parity bit will be '1' or '0' depending if it was even or uneven parity. How does that work when you have 3 parity drives?
Glad that the post was informative for you
While writing the guide I actually asked myself the same question. I also don't know how several parity drives function. However, I am sure someone in this thread will have an answer for us.