Recent content by selsr

Thanks for the suggestions. I've looked at FlexRAID and Unraid but I think I'll go with either SnapRAID or mdadm for my NAS build.

SnapRAID looks interesting. Is it basically higher-level RAID4 (dedicated parity) without data striping?

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, that's right. It will be a while before I get the 3rd drive and I don't want to risk losing anything before that. It might be easier to start with 3 drives in RAID5 rather than deal with migrating from RAID1 to RAID5 later. With 3 drives, raidz gives just...

I'm planning to build an expandable NAS to backup large media and image files. I do not have all the drives yet and I'm not able to acquire all of them during the initial build/setup. After much searching, it seems linux mdadm software RAID5 is the best way of achieving this. ZFS sounds...