Hi,
I am not a raid expert. I did a little research and snapraid seems to claim it's superior. Not sure if it's true? I am on windows and I don't wanna be an IT expert to set this up.
I found a GUI for snapraid, so I am wondering if there is an easy guide that shows how to set it up. All I am trying to do is to have 5 x 8tb drives to show up as a single drive in Windows with parity protection and avoid bit rot if possible.
Currently I have a drobo with 5 x 3tb but it seems like the max limit for my device is 32tb, and they don't list 8tb drives as supported.
Also with my 5 x 8tb setup, I want to add the drives one by one. So not sure if I can do this without rebuilding the whole array each time.
Drobo asks you to specify the size beforehand, and it's capped at 32tb so not sure the same thing has to be done for other solutions.
This is only for media files, nothing else.
Thanks a lot.
I am not a raid expert. I did a little research and snapraid seems to claim it's superior. Not sure if it's true? I am on windows and I don't wanna be an IT expert to set this up.
I found a GUI for snapraid, so I am wondering if there is an easy guide that shows how to set it up. All I am trying to do is to have 5 x 8tb drives to show up as a single drive in Windows with parity protection and avoid bit rot if possible.
Currently I have a drobo with 5 x 3tb but it seems like the max limit for my device is 32tb, and they don't list 8tb drives as supported.
Also with my 5 x 8tb setup, I want to add the drives one by one. So not sure if I can do this without rebuilding the whole array each time.
Drobo asks you to specify the size beforehand, and it's capped at 32tb so not sure the same thing has to be done for other solutions.
This is only for media files, nothing else.
Thanks a lot.