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    Extendible RAID-style systems (snapraid, flexraid etc)

    Happy it worked for you too!
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    Extendible RAID-style systems (snapraid, flexraid etc)

    Consider aufs instead of mhddfs, it is MUCH faster for writing (its impact is almost irrelevant, while mhddfs slows downs a lot and is a cpu hog while writing). Aufs is included in most linux distros. This is a typical fstab line for aufs. none /mnt/allDisks aufs...
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    Just finished to reshape the existing raid-5 to raid-6 (added two WD20EARX) :-)
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    ghostdunks, I probably didn't point out clearly enough why I arrived to the decision NOT to adopt flexraid or snapraid. I try to write it down, also to reorganize my ideas: 1) I don't think I will adopt snapshot/flexraid much, mostly because I would be limited to single disk performance...
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    yes... it reflects the fact that I am still trying to figure it out. If money weren't a factor I would go RAID6 with 8 3TB drives. I'm still in the process of making a decision!
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    I wouldn't choose 3TB when I only have 2TB drives, but what I were planning to throw in some 3TB drives in say a few months? I would have to change the 2TB parity drive with a 3TB one and throw the 2TB (ex-parity drive) to the pool. Isn't it a bit clunky? Perhaps it is only that I don't finish...
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    Now that would be nice :-) Not if I am fine with a NAS to NAS 10Gb connection (sort of the old 'crossover' cable connection). No need to change the full network. As you pointed out, 1 Gb/s speed is more than adequate now.
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    you're probably right.... But, on your opinion, when will a single 10Gb/s card reach a price tag of roughly 100$? This price would still be interesting for a direct connection between two NASes. AND again, you're most probably right. Yes, and also, ZFS vdev creation is faster than...
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    Thanks. If I'd choose RAID-6, my "blocks" would be composed of 8 disks, to keep loss of space due to parity at an acceptable 25%. About the performance: as I know that a SINGLE home server will never be enough, unless I use very expensive & loud SAS expanders, I already have a secondary NAS. So...
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    Of course not. I worry about the fact that, for instance, to be ready for next 3TB drives, it would be better to choose a 3TB drive for parity, even if I currently have only 2tb drives. Surely simple, I agree, but also surely time-consuming! Thanks for your help!
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    Thanks Billy_nnn. I also tried mhddfs once, by, despite the fact that it is easier than aufs (less options, and it does exactly what I was needing), it is much slower in write operations. That happened on an old atom 330, but with the same hardware aufs was much faster. In the reality, it was...
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    I have a question about raid6. As I would like to continue using XFS, does this filesystem grow correctly when I add a new disk? When I create the file system, I specifiy the su and sw parameters. What happens when I add a new disk? Do I need to specify new su and sw parameters, or the...
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    Yes... it looks like at the end Raid6 (or Raid Z2) is the only viable solution. I know it's not a backup, but as I wrote in the original post, the data that really need backups, already have backups (multiple and automated, phew, after a lot of work!)
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    Thanks Ripley, you remind me an aspect that I was not taking into account... what's your suggestion for my build? Stick to RAID 1+0 for example?
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    I forgot to say that the extra performance (sequential read/write) given by the raid-5 4-disk arrays is desirable, so using snapraid would add another level of redundancy and waste space. What I am looking for is a drive pooling solution, that allows also arrays as pool elements. Thanks again
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