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Drivebender replacement (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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As title states. I'm looking for a drivebender replacement. I've been eyeing drivepool and it's probably what I'm going with but I'd like to know what else might be out there. This is for a JBoD setup. Backups happen to offsite location, so I'm not worried about backups.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Doesn't windows have storage spaces or something like that? I'm not familiar with windows for any kind of server stuff but I remember reading some things.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    It does but it's not great from what I've read for jbod setups. Drivebender has been awesome for over a decade for me. It balances everything and even lets me keep local backups, so if one drive dies it's got a copy on another drive.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    if one drive dies it's got a copy on another drive

    Do you want JBOD or a RAID? Cause dealing with disk failure is a feature of RAID

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I don't really need speed. RAID is for people who like to spend money on same size/speed drives

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Most RAID levels are for redundancy, not speed and software RAID doesn't need drives of the same size.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The RAID I'm talking about requires same size and speed of drives to be optimal. Otherwise it goes with the smallest and slowest drive in the array.

    You talking about unraid?

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