J_R_G Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I tried flexraid, it immediately bugged out (could not access any files on the drive). Didn't try snapraid, can't use ZFS because I stick to Windows. Not sure what it would get me over my current set up any way, which is not hardware RAID, it's a Windows 2012 R2's Storage Space in Parity formatted as ReFS. It has file and meta-data checksumming, and I periodically run a powershell script that reports any checksumming errors, which is how I found out the last drive was dying. Hardware RAID5 with a non-checksumming filesystem, well yea I can see problems there, but I would never go back to a non-checksumming file system any way. But in my experience I've never seen 2 drives fail at once, it could happen, but it could happen in a regular mirror setup too. That's why I said it's about desire to keep data offset by money restrictions. I get reasonable protection against what I consider to be typical risks, with larger storage available to me, without spending anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctified Veteran Posted July 29, 2014 Veteran Share Posted July 29, 2014 16 tb of data in spinning hds! Hope you backup frequently :p Hurmoth 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majortom1981 Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I try but its hard to keep a straight face when talking about synoligy and qnap selling their dinky cramped boxes for outrageous prices we have been running our hyperv cluster on a qnap nas box for about3 years with no problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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