Brian, I personally only trust my data at home to ZFS under FreeBDS using raidz or raidz2 (R5/R6 Equiv).
If you are not inclined to learn or don't care to learn FreeBDS, this will work nicely: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8/ On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 05:09:32PM -0500, Brian Weeden wrote: > So now that I'm going down the path of building a new media storage server, > I need to look at options for preserving the data. I think I'm going to not > go with a traditional RAID system because your data is striped across > multiple drives - any one drive essentially has gibberish on it. > > The two other options are unRAID and FlexRAID. Both are similar in that the > data is stored on individual drives and then a parity is made on another > device. So if you have multiple drive failures, at worst your data on the > remaining drives is ok. And they are also much more flexible with regard to > adding drives, configuring the number of parity drives, and using drives of > multiple sizes. > > The difference is that unRAID is Linux-based and boots from a USB stick, > while FlexRAID is basically software running on a host OS. I am leaning > towards FlexRAID, mainly because I am not very familiar with Linux and I > need this box to do more than just store media. > > Has anyone used either unRAID or FlexRAID? Your experiences? > > --- > Brian -- Bryan G. Seitz
