ZFS is something different, it's a file system and logical volume manager. FlexRAID is a piece of software that does data redundancy using parity, similar to conventional RAID but with significant differences. I use it on my media storage server.
------- Brian Weeden Secure World Foundation +1 202 683-8534 On Jul 8, 2013, at 13:53, DSinc <dsinc...@epbfi.com> wrote: > 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" <a...@kukaki.net> >> Sent: âEURZ(7/âEURZ(7/âEURZ(2013 8:40 PM >> To: "hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com" <hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com> >> Subject: Re: [H] Nas 3.0 >> >> flexraid is zfs-based? >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Chris Reeves <tmse...@rlrnews.com> 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" <se...@bsd-unix.net> >>> Sent: 7/7/2013 6:45 PM >>> To: "hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com" <hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com> >>> 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 >
