Flexraid.com They make a product that they refer to as NZFS, I'm using flexraid-f, which also uses that algorithm. I simulated a drive fail last night. Flawless recovery. Nice.
-----Original Message----- From: "Alex Lee" <[email protected]> Sent: 7/7/2013 8:40 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [H] Nas 3.0 flexraid is zfs-based? On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Chris Reeves <[email protected]> wrote: > I ended up going with flexraid. So far, very happy with it. 18tb avail in > one array and 26tb in the other. All good so far. > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Bryan Seitz" <[email protected]> > Sent: 7/7/2013 6:45 PM > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [H] Nas 3.0 > > 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 >
