Chris,
My ReadyNas devices (3) all use Flex-RAID. Seems to work great.
I've had zero issues since install 3yrs ago.
Duncan
On 07/08/2013 12:29, Chris Reeves wrote:
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]>
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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.
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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.
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Bryan G. Seitz
