2014-08-11, 03:12
You might want give snapraid and aufs a look...
http://blog.ktz.me/?p=470
My biggest complaint about unraid is it's chaotic development strategy.
Freenas is great but expansion is tricky due to ZFS and pools etc. Gets confusing quick for a newbie and before you know or you're locked in. Also, ideal hardware requirements are somewhat less flexible due to ECC memory.
Snapraid and aufs (or mhddfs) does everything you want when paired with any Linux distro. I use arch because I can get "those kinds of apps" from AUR very easily, the OS is almost irrelevant as snapraid is filesystem agnostic.
http://blog.ktz.me/?p=470
My biggest complaint about unraid is it's chaotic development strategy.
Freenas is great but expansion is tricky due to ZFS and pools etc. Gets confusing quick for a newbie and before you know or you're locked in. Also, ideal hardware requirements are somewhat less flexible due to ECC memory.
Snapraid and aufs (or mhddfs) does everything you want when paired with any Linux distro. I use arch because I can get "those kinds of apps" from AUR very easily, the OS is almost irrelevant as snapraid is filesystem agnostic.