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Software Raid/Pooling

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demechman

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I recently posted a thread about using windows ReFS but have decided against it as I am unsure about the upgrade path for a windows 8 operating system. I am completely happy with my windows 7 environment as it sits today.

I want to poll the community on software raid applications. My motherboard supports 8 SATA drives. I want to use 7 of those ports for 4TB WD Green HDD's and the 8th as a SSD boot drive. At the end of the day I would love to have a single volume of around 20-24TB of usable space with some protection on that data. I will only be hosting non-critical files on this volume such as movies and games. I also use a Synology NAS with RAID 5 for critical data backup so will likely be setting that up as another fail-safe.

I am looking at the following software options:
  • FlexRaid
  • SnapRaid
  • Stablebit

My concern with some of these packages is that they might expire or become non-functional as the companies go out of business therby exposing my data to loss. I am also curious what happens if I need to re-install windows with these packages. I am not overly concerned with high performance just enough to stream media. Cost is less of an issue for me since I do want this to work. I have considered a hardware RAID solution so might be open to that if people think that is better route. I was just hoping to save a few bucks with good enough.
 
With SnapRaid your data is stored as normal files with each disk being its own native filesystem. If the software quit working you will still have your data. You can take any disk to any other machine and its perfectly readable without snapraid installed.
 
The above applies to all 3 of your choices.

If you need parity consider between flexraid and snapraid, both are similar to an extent. if you fine without parity or you would be fine with de duplicación then consider stablebitt and drivebender.

i been using stablebitt for almost a year now,No issues to report, but mine is a media server, that i dont have any needs for parity or backup, at the end its more up to you and your needs.
 
I use stablebit drivepool and scanner on server 2012r2. No problems. Have a 27tb pool with 9 disks.
 
Just installed all 26 glorious terabytes and have stablebit up and running. Things seem "stable" lol for the last 48 test period. Thanks for the help!
 
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