I found documentation that explains steps on how to make a pool autostart, but i think it may be for version 1. Mix and match harddrives now i have 4x 2gb, but for sure when i upgrade i dont want to buy 4 new one. What i want in drivepooling software is very simple. It wont be listed into the pool, until you move it there. It will be the balancers job to move all the files from the ssd disks to the archive disks in. Add a new pool to an existing pool, just like a regular drive. I have to open flexraid, open the pool and click the publish restart button then it appears. Stablebit the home of stablebit clouddrive, stablebit drivepool. Would it just be as simple as uninstalling flexraid, installing snapraid with stablebit drivepool. Ssd disks will receive all new files created on the pool.
If you share the view or paths contained in the view, you will need to create a file named reconnectshares. Is it possible to restore to a folder on an existing drive or the drivepool. Dec 01, 20 ive been using stablebit drivepool on my homeserver to do the pooling duties for two years now. If you want to show your appreciation, you can donate, or you can star it on github. As a paying customer, im concerned by the complete lack of release stable updates over this extended period. Flexraid was licensebased, just like unraid, but was basically supported by a single individual who apparently got bored with it and moved on. Snapraid is a free software application released with the gplv3 license. Flexraid to snapraid wdrive pool assassin guide or similar. Jan 28, 2020 stablebit drivepool is not available for linux but there are some alternatives that runs on linux with similar functionality.
Snapraid is mainly targeted for a home media center, with a lot of big files that rarely change. I dont have any experience with flexraid or drive bender but ive read that drive bender seems to be more complicated to manage than drivepool. I know there have been some subsequent betas into the 2. Flexraid is the most difficult to use, but gives you pairty redundancy doesnt chew up 50% of your disk with the mirror approaches of the others.
On a different forum a number of people are making a co. A word of caution, i too have a large pool, 27 drives, and recently moved from drive bender to drivepool. In case one drive fails, your duplicated files remain safe. In addition, the affiliates can see the time of a code use, download, purchase, purchase price, and the product involved.
You can get one of those 5in3 drive cages to add more disks in limited storage bays. Does anyone here use snapraid to create parity data stored on hard drives in drviepools pool. Im trying to take a bunch of hard drives on a nonserver windows os and combine them into a single logical volume with some kind of parity system to protect against hard drive failure. Im extremely impressed with this software solution to pooling drives. Drivepool is nice because it doesnt same sizetype or even remotely similar drives. Both drivebender and stablebit drivepool support dupilcation of allselected content and some run snapraid or flexraid at the same time.
I wanted to be sure i understand the repair process completely before starting, so i installed 2012r2 in a virtualbox machine and gave it six 5gb drives 5 for data and 1 parity. Protected network attached storage nas and hybrid storage system hss using transparent raid or raid over file system. With improved autofocus and a large touchscreen interface, we found ourselves really enjoying it. Current flexraid pooling only user looking for an alternative forums. Nov 18, 20 modifying files that arent excluded in flexraid create corruption in recovery if a drive fails between the mod and next update process. Run snapraid fix all files will be restored to the right path 8. If that doesnt suit you, our users have ranked 9 alternatives to stablebit. I prefer to fill up a drive precisely how i like to, then move onto the next drive. The storage thread raid, zfs, btrfs, unraid, flexraid. Flexraid s storage pooling technology allows you to turn independant hard drives of various sizes, makes, and models into a storage pool, even if they already contain data. Ive been playing with drivepool snapraid in a vm in preperation for a migration from flexraid on win7 to drivepool snapraid on server 2012r2. A modified version of the linux reiserfs filesystem with realtime redundancy. When i decided to move to windows home server 2011, i needed to choose a suitable drivepooling software because microsoft decided to remove theirs. Specify separate folder duplication and file placement.
This guide has been written for ubuntu lucid lynx 10. Thinking of moving from flexraid to snapraid anandtech. Ive had stablebit drivepool running on a whs 2011 box for about 8 months and its been rock solid. I cant even download flexraid anymore and my old download will not. Flexraid s parity protection and storage pooling are an integrated solution but they are also available as separate products. Literally 5 minutes to setup that included download. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures. Flexraid is the netgear version of raid for expertsgeeks. I should mention that you can download a free trial from the flexraid website and they have a cost breakdown here.
With this plugin you designate one or more disks as ssd disks. If you dont do this drivepool, will see the restored drive twice, one still in the pool and one outside. Seems to be a lot more discussion of drivepool when searching, and not much to be found about how the 2 compare. Drivebender announcement that development is endingor not. Ive been using stablebit drivepool on my homeserver to do the pooling duties for two years now. Stablebit drivepool or stablebit drivepoolflexraid raidf parity. Nov 29, 20 page 1 of 3 a lot of questions in regards to.
I am currently at 6tb pool on it, until my 3x 3tb come back from warranty which will put it up to 14ish tb. I have about 22tb of files most of them are 2x, others are 3x, then the total used space is about 44gb. You can add drives already in use and of different sizes to the array and only the drive with the file on it spins up during reads. Stablebit drivepool or drivepool flexraid or snap drivepool if you want x2 duplication, you need twice the space. Backup suggestions for whs11 w stablebit drivepool ars. Does anyone here have experience with both windows storage spaces and stablebit drivepool with snapraid. I have elaborated already on the benefits in multiple threads in the last few days.
I use flexraid only for the storage pooling feature. A state of the art disk pooling application with file duplication. As a rule of thumb snapraid usually requires 1 gib of ram memory for each 16 tb of data in the array. Flexraid isnt really like storage spaces or whatever was in whsv1, its more. Lets you designate any folder as a duplicated folder. I note that drivepool seems to have a slight advantage sicne they also proved a scanner utility that appears to be superior than just relying on s. I really need to figure out whether i am staying with flex or moving to stablebit. The final result was not great, it seems that drivepool does not handle large pools as well as drive bender, for me performance was very much reduced. I find all of them work quite well and if you have multiple disks, they are all fantastic tools. Windows 8 storage spaces with drivepool features covecube forum. Merge all your drives into a single massive volume. I note that drivepool seems to have a slight advantage sicne they also proved a scanner utility that appears. The parity drive is basically a checksum of each drives clusters.
I wanted two separate pools one for tvseries and one for movies so for me personally it turned out that drivepool was the better choice. The folder duplication is super easy to use and i couldnt be happier. Its fairly cheap but all options require a small fee. Ive downloaded all their guides as pdfs, and put them into a single torrent. How to setup snapraid and drivepool in windows youtube. Over the years people have told us that they love our products and our customer support. If you have the money to buy all your drives up front, the go with a raid6 if you dont need what drivepool offers. The first i read before and was what interested me in flexraid. It is the way to protect and recover their data from any disk failures. Want to make the move from flexraidf to drivepool windows. Drive bender, stable bit or flexraid for pooling drives. Adding it to the pool does not destroy anything on it. The topic of adding raidstyle parity to drivepool was raised several times on the old forum. Flexraid is more expensive, but im not sure about the less features part.
Has anyone had any experience with both snapraid and flexraid. Snapraid is only one of the available not standard raid solutions for disk arrays the best known others are. Drivepoolbender alternatives with parity protection. All your data is hashed to ensure data integrity and to avoid silent corruption. Just a note to say a huge thanks from a very satisfied customer and longterm user of both stablebit drivepool and stablebit scanner. Download your copy of the stablebit drivepool, stablebit scanner or stablebit clouddrive here. I have been using flexraid for drive pooling for over 3 years and. Delete doesnt create this issue if you enable the flexraid recycling bin. Drive extender update 2014 drive bender, stablebit drivepool, storage spaces home server show 251. If a drive fails and you need to recover using flexraid, simply uninstall drivepool plus delete the info in the programdata stablebitdrivepool folder and then restore the dru. I honestly dont know what happened and i cant seem to find any info as to why flexraid disappeared, but it was a dick move by the developer to just abandon everyone that paid for his product. It seems like drivepool is able to provide redundancy like snapraid, on top of other functions such as drive pooling.
Sadly, i figured out that flexraidf does not support nfs, and. Flexraid is a solution for home and commercial networking system for unifying and organizing the data of the system. Log raid a very special topic in transparent raid is the raid migration log configuration raid type or log raid. I replicated my shares from the flexraid setup and just moved everything over on drive at a time, the only thing that is duplicated is the folder structure so its not a big deal to continue over writing it as it just doesnt do anything. A opensourced flexraid seems like the best comparison. Can someone download them all now that traffic has. No other information is made available to our affiliates.
Jbod with a mix of drivepool snapraid flexraid unraid deals dead sadly. A reason to use a different hashsize is if your system has small memory. When i reboot my windows machine my flexraid storage pool drive letter does not automatically appear. As its marketed looks like it would be perfect for a lower power media server where the files are numerous but never change. Stablebits drivepool combined with drive parity solutions like flexraid will continue to be my choice as they provide an appropriate level of resiliency to failure, without drastically increasing the costredundency ratio. Split stablebit drivepool setup info software discussion. Stablebit the home of stablebit clouddrive, stablebit.
One of my 2tb hgst drives, after 12 years, has failed. In this article we will cover how to get flexraid set up and protecting data in a raid configuration as well as a few benchmarks. Coming from flexraid page 2 presales support unraid. From what ive read, nothing much has changed about the basics of flexraid from where it was first introduced. Add the new drive in drivepool and get the new id 6. So im planning a snapraid media server, but i recently stumbled on stablebit drivepool. I imagine if i use a balancing strategy that move files around between different drives too often, i would need to run snapraid to sync parity data more often even if i dont update any data on those hard drives. Oct 28, 2015 hi, i am about to set up a windows server, and owuld prefer to use on of the drive tools listed above, this is because i like the idea of only having certain folders duplicated. Shutdown 712017 v9 windows installer sagetv open source download area. It would be great if i could get a good opinion from some people on which one i should use. Snapraid is mainly targeted for a home media center, with a lot of big files that rarely change beside the ability to recover from disk failures, other features of snapraid are. Beside the ability to recover from disk failures, other features of snapraid are. The xa7 is fujifilms latest, and most polished, entrylevel apsc mirrorless camera.
May 04, 20 thought i would also mention that flexraid s parity protection will also work with drive bender and drivepool. Drive extender update 2014 drive bender, stablebit. I dont want raid, i want to use a more flexible form. This is the older version of stablebit drivepool that was specifically designed for the windows home server 2011. One of the reoccurring issues torrent users face when downloading to a flexraid backed storage pool is the issue of downloads sometimes timing out.
So i have to configure exclusions in flexraid for nfos, xmls, etc. I use a front end gui called elucidate that you can download as a front end for. What happened to flexraid i guess i need an alternative. Combines multiple physical hard drives into one large virtual drive. The solution is also perfect for data protection and data recovery. Like an all in one piece of software thats easy to use and supported well by its developer who has a vested interest in its success. Hi, i am about to set up a windows server, and owuld prefer to use on of the drive tools listed above, this is because i like the idea of only having certain folders duplicated. I find drivebender and drivepool about equal biggest difference is the. It just balances data between them so that two copies are on different drives somewhere in the pool. X can also run on the windows home server 2011 and newer.
Could anyone prep me for any potential difficulties in moving my array over from flexraid to a similar snapraid setup. Covecube the makers of drivepool have a great discussion in their forums on microsofts pooling solution in windows 8, storage spaces vs drivepool. Ive posted this faq because 1 this is a new forum and 2 a new user asked about adding folderlevel parity, which to mangle a phrase is the same fish but a different kettle. You have greater flexibility and can improve capacity efficiencyetc. Flexraid also lets you add as many ppu parity protection units as you want. The drive pool and parity are controlled by flexraid. In this video i show how to setup snapraid and drivepool to make a large volume with parity backup for storing files. Look at either data duplication drivepool or parity solutions that work at the file level your data stays readable snapraid and flexraid both do this well, snapraid is free and highly regarded. I also do not use the program to place data on drives for me. So im sure snapraid is what i need for the second nas, and if i have to learn it. It is not going to replace unraid, or any raid0123456.
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