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I've been using unraid for a while now and am really happy - especially with its flexibility. Once you get to the Drobo/WHS point of your NAS life, HDD bays an
by latch 16y ago
I've been using unraid for a while now and am really happy - especially with its flexibility.
Once you get to the Drobo/WHS point of your NAS life, HDD bays and xfer speeds quickly become the biggest issue. (4x2TB - redundancy) can quickly become not enough..and chances are that you'll always be ahead of where HDD storage is.
- altano 16y agoMy WHS has 4 HDs and its transfer speed is still network bound (100 Mbps). Much faster than the Drobo it replaced. My biggest gripes with the drobo were loudness (no really, it sounds like a jet engine), inability to recover data directly off the HD if the drobo dies, horrible transfer speeds, and horrible support. It's one pro was simplicity.
- latch 16y agoI had a WHS, and the only complaint I have about it is that redundancy is accomplished via duplication. Depending on how much data you have, that can greatly increase your total cost of ownership. To achieve 10TB of redundant storage on WHS, you need 10x2TB disks. To accomplish that with unraid you need 6x2TB. The downside is that unraid will only protected you against a single disk failure, whereas WHS might protect you against multiple disk failures - depending on which disks go.