I'm currently using FlexRaid and I'm getting sick of constant false reports of corrupt files. All my drives check out OK and files are all good but it's validation checks fail immediately after re-doing the parity. Needles to say, I don't trust it any more if a drive dies to successfully restore my info.
Before I switch over I have a few questions and things I'd like confirmed if anyone here can help me.
First, and most importantly can I add or create drives to a pool that already have data on the drives? I have 15TB of data to move so this is huge for me. Assuming I can add to the pool without destroying my data, is there anything else I need to do?
Second, after the pool is created, can I later add additional drives to expand my pool or am I stuck with the number of drives I start with in the pool?
Next, if I need to pull a drive out of the pool for any reason, am I able to read the data off the drive? If there's one thing FlexRaid has done well is I can pull a drive out of the pool, plug it into another PC and read all the data off of it.
Last, how does the backup functionality work here? My current setup has 7 4TB drives that are pooled with an 8TB drive used to store parity information. After formatting, this gives me between 25 and 26 TB or usable space in the pool as the parity drive obviously isn't counted. I'd like to not lose any of that space due to parity if I can help it but at least want to be properly informed on the expectations.
Thanks in advance! It takes a while for Flexraid to rebuild after pulling things out so I'm a bit hesitant to go for the free trial until I know what I'm getting into.
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I'm currently using FlexRaid and I'm getting sick of constant false reports of corrupt files. All my drives check out OK and files are all good but it's validation checks fail immediately after re-doing the parity. Needles to say, I don't trust it any more if a drive dies to successfully restore my info.
Before I switch over I have a few questions and things I'd like confirmed if anyone here can help me.
First, and most importantly can I add or create drives to a pool that already have data on the drives? I have 15TB of data to move so this is huge for me. Assuming I can add to the pool without destroying my data, is there anything else I need to do?
Second, after the pool is created, can I later add additional drives to expand my pool or am I stuck with the number of drives I start with in the pool?
Next, if I need to pull a drive out of the pool for any reason, am I able to read the data off the drive? If there's one thing FlexRaid has done well is I can pull a drive out of the pool, plug it into another PC and read all the data off of it.
Last, how does the backup functionality work here? My current setup has 7 4TB drives that are pooled with an 8TB drive used to store parity information. After formatting, this gives me between 25 and 26 TB or usable space in the pool as the parity drive obviously isn't counted. I'd like to not lose any of that space due to parity if I can help it but at least want to be properly informed on the expectations.
Thanks in advance! It takes a while for Flexraid to rebuild after pulling things out so I'm a bit hesitant to go for the free trial until I know what I'm getting into.
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