Are you using WHS2011 for streaming? I'm assuming that flexraid can be
used standalone?
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Chris Reeves tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote:
I've been using whs2011+flexraid. Whs2011 can be found for $29. I paid
$39 for flexraid.
I currently have 48tb online and
I've been using FlexRAID for the last few years to run my HTPC and I really
like it. Much more flexible than traditional RAID and you also it's much
harder to completely lose everything.
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Brian
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.comwrote:
Are you
Flexraid runs on top of any windows os. Whs2011 can be had very cheaply
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From: Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com
Sent: 11/12/2013 8:03 AM
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] NAS Software
Are you using WHS2011 for
Yeah, I found a discussion comparing Flexraid to Unraid. For me, they are
identical except for two issues: Flexraid can add disks with data already
on them (Unraid can't) while Unraid can run the OS from a USB stick, saving
a MB SATA port, while Flexraid requires one disk for the OS.
On Tue,
Unraid is basically a special version of slackware linux.
I used to use Unraid and switched over to Synology at 2x the cost.
a. 1 disk failure tolerance for Unraid - I wanted 2 (which Synology
offered with their hybrid raid setup)
b. Unraid performance is great if you use a cache disk (SSD),
All good points, Alex, except for the cost. A Synology system would cost
me $500 to $800 without disks and limit me in number of disks. Right now I
have disks a system, the only cost would be the software. As it is, I
can't find WHS2011 for less than $49.99 (where'd you find it for $29.99,
Yes it does support different disk sizes in their Synology Hybrid Raid
setup (1 or 2 disk fault tolerance).
Like I said, Synology isn't cheap but I wanted less hassles and a smaller
footprint (power, size, etc) - I ended up re-using most of my Unraid disks,
plus a few new ones for the Synology
I'm a super big fan of Synology devices. Have a 5 bay version and another
5 bay ESATA hanging off that. Works peachy.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Alex Lee a...@kukaki.net wrote:
Yes it does support different disk sizes in their Synology Hybrid Raid
setup (1 or 2 disk fault tolerance).
