On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 05:14:00AM -0700, Tim Lider wrote: > I have not done a project like that . When I price out a NAS project it is > actually less expensive (when you think of equipment and time) to get one > premade. The NAS' we use are WD's right now. The boss also does not like to > have > the TB size of the NAS' too large, I limit the size to around 8TB to 12TB. > > If you do make a NAS with NAS4Free, I have looked into it, remember it is a > software RAID not a Hardware RAID. What do I mean by that? Software RAID's > are > basically made using a Volume Manager (usually Linux VLM or VLM2), hardware > RAID's are actually considered a 1 physical disk to the PC when managing the > Volume(s) at the operating system level. > > I myself prefer hardware RAID setups. This is due to the ease of replacing > disks > if needed. Also, Hardware RAID's are a bit easier to recover when things go > bad. > > Have a great weekend all,
Anything using ZFS makes replacements quite easy to be honest. Also with ZFS my disks can be on any controller I can dig up...onboard, addin card, etc.... With hardware raid if your controller eats it you have to find the same card / family to import your config. Personally I would not use anything BUT zfs right now as far as mass storage goes. For OS disks I still prefer hardware raid. -- Bryan G. Seitz