Okay, I am running a home NAS and I looked into DrivePool probably a year or more ago. At the time it did not meet the needs for my specific use case and I ended up settling on TrueNAS which has been absolutely excellent for my situation up until recently.
The issue I have hit is I have a fairly large DAS array (20 drives) I want to setup as a JBOD for a very specific use case. TrueNAS is pretty much obsessive about redundancy and data protection and zfs will not support anything like that given the obvious risks. So I'm now looking an flipping my NAS box over to Windows Server 2019 and going to a combination of Windows Storage Spaces for rapid storage which needs to be fast and possibly DrivePool for the JBOD array which is not as sensitive to access speed. My entire network is on a combo of 40gbe and 10gbe.
My questions are:
1. Does DrivePool play well with Windows Storage Spaces?
2. Does DrivePool play well with PrimoCache?
3. Does DrivePool mix well with SAS Expanders, SAS drives and HBA's?
4. Assuming yes to the above is there anything I should be potentially be aware of before seriously considering this?
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Nathan
Morning,
Okay, I am running a home NAS and I looked into DrivePool probably a year or more ago. At the time it did not meet the needs for my specific use case and I ended up settling on TrueNAS which has been absolutely excellent for my situation up until recently.
The issue I have hit is I have a fairly large DAS array (20 drives) I want to setup as a JBOD for a very specific use case. TrueNAS is pretty much obsessive about redundancy and data protection and zfs will not support anything like that given the obvious risks. So I'm now looking an flipping my NAS box over to Windows Server 2019 and going to a combination of Windows Storage Spaces for rapid storage which needs to be fast and possibly DrivePool for the JBOD array which is not as sensitive to access speed. My entire network is on a combo of 40gbe and 10gbe.
My questions are:
1. Does DrivePool play well with Windows Storage Spaces?
2. Does DrivePool play well with PrimoCache?
3. Does DrivePool mix well with SAS Expanders, SAS drives and HBA's?
4. Assuming yes to the above is there anything I should be potentially be aware of before seriously considering this?
Thanks in advance.
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