I have heard good things about WHS v1 as well, but that's not really an option for me. It does data protection through a form of mirroring, and thus you need twice the number of drives. I'm storing mainly media which is not changed very often so that type of protection doesn't make much sense.
I have seen a lot of people that run WHS and then FlexRAID under it. They configure a couple of drives under the WHS protected pool to store backup data and then other drives under FlexRAID for storing media. Can I just buy a copy of WHS? Or do I need to buy some hardware to get it? Are there any limitations as far as compared to Win7? I would need to run apps on it like video transcoding. --- Brian On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:28 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I use freenas. Very happy. But I'm looking into Greyhole options. > Still, give ms all the heck we want, whs v1 (NOT 2!!) Is maybe one of the > best nas products I've ever used > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan Seitz <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:24:00 > To: <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Cc: hwg<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [H] unRAID vs FlexRAID > > 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 >
