Hello,
I am currently looking at a few options for the software RAID.
- Nexenta *not an option due to limits on community version
- Napp-It (Open Indiana) *not an option due to the older ZFS
- Napp-It (OmniOS)
- NAS4Free
- FreeNAS
- Unraid *not an option due to no striping
The main functions used will be iSCSI and SMB 3.0 but if the system does not support SMB 3.0 I can just run a windows 2012 virtual machine. I would most likely be looking at similar redundancy as RAID 6.
Preferably i would like quick rebuild times like Windows 2012 R2 Storage Spaces. I would of looked at Windows Storage Spaces minus the really proof performance for RAID5. As well would like to be able to replace drives and expand the storage. i.e. if there was 4 drives I could add another 4 to the same RAID array. Or replace small hard drives that are part of the array with larger ones such as 2TB to 4TB, etc.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn387076.aspx
What are you recommendations and why?
Thanks in advance.
I am currently looking at a few options for the software RAID.
- Nexenta *not an option due to limits on community version
- Napp-It (Open Indiana) *not an option due to the older ZFS
- Napp-It (OmniOS)
- NAS4Free
- FreeNAS
- Unraid *not an option due to no striping
The main functions used will be iSCSI and SMB 3.0 but if the system does not support SMB 3.0 I can just run a windows 2012 virtual machine. I would most likely be looking at similar redundancy as RAID 6.
Preferably i would like quick rebuild times like Windows 2012 R2 Storage Spaces. I would of looked at Windows Storage Spaces minus the really proof performance for RAID5. As well would like to be able to replace drives and expand the storage. i.e. if there was 4 drives I could add another 4 to the same RAID array. Or replace small hard drives that are part of the array with larger ones such as 2TB to 4TB, etc.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn387076.aspx
What are you recommendations and why?
Thanks in advance.