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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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[+] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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  • [–] [S] -3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Windows domain. Just what I've stuck with.

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    • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Not at all a helpful comment to your question, but what's drive bender?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It's a drive pooling application for windows, lets you merge multiple drives into a single mount.

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

    Yep, it's great for those of us who are lazy lol

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

    I know this isn't the answer you want but ditch windows. There's a million better ways to do it better on BSD or linux

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

    I think my main thing to is, if something breaks my wife can figure it out even without me around. If I go to BSD or linux...well cards are off the table at that point.

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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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