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    Which partition management tool to replace Acronis Disk Director 11?

    gparted/ is the best in my opinion. It works with linux and windows partitions.
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    Best Storage Solution?

    Again, missing the point of what we're after in this thread. Home media server. Hello? The fact that a piece of software designed to generate parity on data doesn't pool is not a big deal. The reason being is that for one there are other pooling solution on this scale. Home media server...
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    Best Storage Solution?

    So VERY VERY right. This discussion was about best storage for a small home media server. The only argument others want to give is the 1000s of disks and such as to why their solution is better. Totally out of scope and missing the point of what was asked.
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    Best Storage Solution?

    You are right in what you've said. Drivepool just pools the drives together under a single letter. No redundancy there. You would need something else to provide parity such as snapraid.
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    Best Storage Solution?

    You've also totally missed the point of this thread. Home media server. Not Enterprise storage with Petabyte installations with 100s of disks. And there's more than one way to pool disks. So that fact than flexraid/snapraid/unraid/etc don't pool is not an issue. And they don't update files...
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    Best Storage Solution?

    SnapRAID is tried and tested. It's been out several years, not as long as zfs true. But it has advanced much in those years and is quite stable. I see nothing "clumsy" about it. It's an easy setup. Which drive is parity? Which drives are data? Once those are defined it provides redundancy...
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    Best Storage Solution?

    That's my whole question too. No one yet has really given any good reasons/examples as to why zfs is the right choice. Other than it just is. It has some nice features most of which are also available in some way with other non-standard raids or software. Every example with zfs involves so...
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    Best Storage Solution?

    Does that setup offer any parity or other redundancy on your data? Just wondering.
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    Best Storage Solution?

    Thank you very much. My point made even more clear.
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    Best Storage Solution?

    Your example there is just a nonstandard raid with removal and replacement of the disks. Something that snapraid, flexraid and other nonstandard raids can all easily do. Nothing zfs specific. It could be ntfs or ext4 or any other filesystem in that example and they'd all work that same way...
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    Best Storage Solution?

    I'm not saying don't keep backups. I understand that, but for simply making a server with the ability to easily add drives and keep that data protected in some way. All the arguments presented so far for zfs seem like both sides are giving good reasons against zfs. I've heard nothing that...
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    Best Storage Solution?

    For simple flexibility and scalability I would say snapraid beats zfs and a standard raid5 easily. What everyone is talking about is setting up a system and later wanting the ability to easily add drives and increase storage while maintaining redundancy. How has any zfs example that's been...
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    Best Storage Solution?

    Flexraid and Snapraid both protect against data corruption. They can detect it through hashes on the data and repair it through parity. They only spin one disk at a time, can use already full disks, can use disks of different sizes provided the parity disk is as large of capacity as your...
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