Recent content by PanaMax

Good day... does somebody can tell me in short if i can shrink my Raid 6 Array (16x4Tb) on my Areca 1882-24 4Gb by 6 disks, and if how? space wise i do not need the 6 disks at the moment since it is only about 20Tb full. capacity after removal of 6 Disks would be 32Tb out of 40... Thanks!

First of all thank you for your comments again. And of course i want to make it right, thats why we are here :) Current situation: I run my main array (16x4) in Raid 6 + i have a copy of all that data spread on 6 external 3tb HDD´s stored at another place and only in use once i make the...

Thank you for your reply... ZFS and RAIDZ2 sounds very promising... however i won't look for an additional fileserver and then keep everything running and consuming electricity. i tested yesterday that a pass through disk can be read by a normal SATA port, so i guess it doesn't matter in case...

Good day everybody, I am a enthusiast Photo and videographer. i Shoot all my Fotos and since two years also all my videos in RAW. currently i have about 20Tb of data. since i expected my data to Grow fast in the near future i startet last year a Hackintosh project. This project is now in his...