Sorry if this makes no sense just typing thoughts. I know this has been talked about before on more than one occasion but is it time to reanalyze the market and see how people feel about it.
Drivepool + parity as an option I would pay for. That the savings on storage would be well worth it.
What I think would be a huge upgrade or addin for stablebit is a parity option. The fact that you can have sub pools and direct data to certain drives/pools allows for so many configuration options. What I am thinking for my own situation is this, btw I have never lost data with Stablebit since it's release.
Pool A 2 x 4TB with 2 x duplication. As per current setup. This will be for recently created, or modified files.
Pool B is archive pool, no duplication. 4 x 6TB, 2 x 4TB, = 29.2TB usable storage.
Pool C is the parity pool, 2 x duplication. 2 x 12TB disks or more. Parity pool has to have the largest individual disk size to protect the entire pool or smaller disks for individual folder protection. The parity could be calculated from the archive pools individual disks, or individual folders.
Now this is where things get smart. Obviously all new and frequently accessed files are stored on pool A, these are duplicated against failure. Simple file and folder created and modified dates can be used to track the files readiness for archiving. Once a file is ready for archiving Stablebit can do this on a schedule out of hours or based on user settings or number of files or the amount of storage that is free on Pool A, etc options are endless.
The benefits of Stablebit doing this over products already out there are in it's already great user interface.
- Simple drive removal and addition from any pool.
- Simple failed drive replacement.
- Simple rules and options for file placements.
- Parity Pool could be duplicating a single large parity file for all archive disks, or possibly just parity for some folders on the archive drive.
- Less user interaction required as Stablebit does the work, set and forget, notify for problems.
- Archive drive addition will increase capacity by the size of that added drive, no loss of capacity due to mirroring.
- Pool B capacity would be 32.7TB with mirror of 12TB drives vs 65.4TB with archive + Parity.
As most storage experts will tell you, drives over 8TB-12TB should really be in an RAID6 array, with hot spare. Thus allowing for multiple failures at a time, most will state that the larger the parity rebuild the more likely a second failure will take place during this time. At what point is mirroring going to be a risk, in my mind we could already be there at 12-14TB. I know I do not want to use larger than 12 TB disks without having at least 3 copies. I cannot afford to have 3 copies on large disks, nor can I have endless small disks as I do not want the heat/power usage and do not have the room.
I know there are other options out there, Synology do something on their NAS boxes, FlexRAID, SnapRAID, Unraid. But none would have the ease that Stablebit could create.
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Sorry if this makes no sense just typing thoughts. I know this has been talked about before on more than one occasion but is it time to reanalyze the market and see how people feel about it.
Drivepool + parity as an option I would pay for. That the savings on storage would be well worth it.
What I think would be a huge upgrade or addin for stablebit is a parity option. The fact that you can have sub pools and direct data to certain drives/pools allows for so many configuration options. What I am thinking for my own situation is this, btw I have never lost data with Stablebit since it's release.
Pool A 2 x 4TB with 2 x duplication. As per current setup. This will be for recently created, or modified files.
Pool B is archive pool, no duplication. 4 x 6TB, 2 x 4TB, = 29.2TB usable storage.
Pool C is the parity pool, 2 x duplication. 2 x 12TB disks or more. Parity pool has to have the largest individual disk size to protect the entire pool or smaller disks for individual folder protection. The parity could be calculated from the archive pools individual disks, or individual folders.
Now this is where things get smart. Obviously all new and frequently accessed files are stored on pool A, these are duplicated against failure. Simple file and folder created and modified dates can be used to track the files readiness for archiving. Once a file is ready for archiving Stablebit can do this on a schedule out of hours or based on user settings or number of files or the amount of storage that is free on Pool A, etc options are endless.
The benefits of Stablebit doing this over products already out there are in it's already great user interface.
- Simple drive removal and addition from any pool.
- Simple failed drive replacement.
- Simple rules and options for file placements.
- Parity Pool could be duplicating a single large parity file for all archive disks, or possibly just parity for some folders on the archive drive.
- Less user interaction required as Stablebit does the work, set and forget, notify for problems.
- Archive drive addition will increase capacity by the size of that added drive, no loss of capacity due to mirroring.
- Pool B capacity would be 32.7TB with mirror of 12TB drives vs 65.4TB with archive + Parity.
As most storage experts will tell you, drives over 8TB-12TB should really be in an RAID6 array, with hot spare. Thus allowing for multiple failures at a time, most will state that the larger the parity rebuild the more likely a second failure will take place during this time. At what point is mirroring going to be a risk, in my mind we could already be there at 12-14TB. I know I do not want to use larger than 12 TB disks without having at least 3 copies. I cannot afford to have 3 copies on large disks, nor can I have endless small disks as I do not want the heat/power usage and do not have the room.
I know there are other options out there, Synology do something on their NAS boxes, FlexRAID, SnapRAID, Unraid. But none would have the ease that Stablebit could create.
Thoughts anyone?
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