I'm a long time FlexRAID user, and while the protection appeared to be there the reality is that it never really worked for me.
I will have a pool with 14 drives (10x 3TB, 2x 4TB and 2x 5TB drives). The majority of my data is media (about 18TB) and not practical to duplicate it all. I have another 2-3TB of personal files, work files, pics etc that I would like to duplicate.
I will also be running the Scanner software. I understand that if I want to be fully protected I'd need to spend a ton of money on Enterprise drives, hardware RAID, etc, etc, etc. I'm looking for settings/configuration (for both Drivepool and Scanner) that will offer me good protection/prevention.
I hooked up some old drives to my existing FlexRAID server and installed Drivepool and Scanner to play with it. I need to play with Drivepool a bit more to understand how it works... I had one drive with data on it, and it added the free space to the pool, and there was a drive with just the data on it that remained. I moved the data, but it didn't remove the now empty drive. It scanned the drives, and one was a complete mess (but still worked), so it warned me it was going to die. Another has always had heat issues, and it gave me a warning about the temp. That's great, and as long as I have 5TB free it should copy files off the drive to minimize the risk of data loss.
Any suggestions for actual setup/configuration? Tips for a newb?
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I'm a long time FlexRAID user, and while the protection appeared to be there the reality is that it never really worked for me.
I will have a pool with 14 drives (10x 3TB, 2x 4TB and 2x 5TB drives). The majority of my data is media (about 18TB) and not practical to duplicate it all. I have another 2-3TB of personal files, work files, pics etc that I would like to duplicate.
I will also be running the Scanner software. I understand that if I want to be fully protected I'd need to spend a ton of money on Enterprise drives, hardware RAID, etc, etc, etc. I'm looking for settings/configuration (for both Drivepool and Scanner) that will offer me good protection/prevention.
I hooked up some old drives to my existing FlexRAID server and installed Drivepool and Scanner to play with it. I need to play with Drivepool a bit more to understand how it works... I had one drive with data on it, and it added the free space to the pool, and there was a drive with just the data on it that remained. I moved the data, but it didn't remove the now empty drive. It scanned the drives, and one was a complete mess (but still worked), so it warned me it was going to die. Another has always had heat issues, and it gave me a warning about the temp. That's great, and as long as I have 5TB free it should copy files off the drive to minimize the risk of data loss.
Any suggestions for actual setup/configuration? Tips for a newb?
Thanks!
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