Recent content by Cool1Net6

Partitions don't go bad; drives go bad. Both partitions get screwed when the drive goes bad. There just is no need to partition anything these days, short of dual booting an OS drive.

Future Reference: Please shrink your picture. There is no reason that I should be horizontally scrolling on my 2560-pixel-wide monitor.

To keep things short, I have a GoPro, a DSLR, and a phone, all which record HD video. I have all this raw video footage and I'm looking for something simple to make video edits. For example, I use Paint.net to do picture edits as it's simple, easy to use, free, and does most of what I ask. I am...

The rear panel is a little close to the hot swap SATA connectors. I used right-angle connectors to give me clearance. I'm not sure straights would work, or if they do, its a worryingly tight fit. The standard length was enough to make it from the drives to the mobo neatly.

Fair enough. I did research on Storage Spaces and decided (right now as-is) it wasn't for me, but if it performed as well as I wanted it to (even in the future) I would pick it up for sure. Your data seems simple; you may not mind the slowness of Parity Write if you don't write to the pool...

If you are concerned about losing data, you need to have that data backed up yesterday. Like you, I piecemeal-ed my storage setup using whatever drives were on sale, but I still have my irreplaceable pictures, music, documents, and video backed up to an external, even though it's only 1/5th of...

Thanks for this, but I don't think SnapRAID is immune, because it only runs updates for modified files, and it identifies modified files by timestamp. If a bit flipped in a file not marked for update, it would be transparent, like all the other snapshot raid systems. You would need to run a...

Seconding Cobian.

Would like to add that this is also possible with other snapshot RAID systems as well: SnapRAID, disParity. Would also like to add that this only works if you catch the data rot BEFORE you update the parity. If you update after data rot, your bad data is now considered good and this point is moot.

Haha! Same here. It somehow prints money, years after it blew up, which was already years after it came out.

Perfect example. I decided to make a pyramid that stretched as high as the world would go. This was the original goal; 8 friends decided to join in and help. After that was done, we extended the pyramid 16 blocks down into the ground. Then we built a lake inside. Then a crypt. Then concentric...

This! I can't find any good reason for these threads anymore; everyone wants to be lazy and not test it out for themselves, then we end up with 16 pages of useless back and forth. This isn't a car; it's stupid easy to go back. Like every new operating system ever, you'll never know if you like...

Adding to this, FlexRAID / SnapRAID / disParity are all very easy to setup and restore from. Essentially once a drive is lost, you point the respective software to your new drive and rebuild the missing data. You only lose your largest drive to store your parity data. All of these systems are...

The 5th backpane is a little redundant, but without it you don't have the hotswap feature. Not really a problem, as long as you plan for it.

I am going to confirm that Scootel2 knows what he is talking about; install Chipset then USB 3 drivers. [Drivers Link]