F'ing NAS took a dump

[SimonMac]

I just acquired an Oracle ZFS Unified Storage Appliance, fingers crossed it will stop me buying second hand storage arrays....

I have a lot of p0rn but that is a bit OTT

[stek]

I have a lot of Linux Distros but that is a bit OTT

It's for my AIX, Oracle Solaris, and HP-UX Distros, honest....

[lilelvis2000]

I took a look at the prices of this stuff and can't figure out why people would buy them. Is it just for the turnkey solution?

I literally took a AMD machine out of a skip, put new memory and power supply on it and added a 4disk RAID. Than installed a linux distro and off I went. that was five years ago. Only issue I had is finding a small ATA disk as the boot drive is ATA. The raid disks are SATA.

[vwdan]

I took a look at the prices of this stuff and can't figure out why people would buy them. Is it just for the turnkey solution?

I literally took a AMD machine out of a skip, put new memory and power supply on it and added a 4disk RAID. Than installed a linux distro and off I went. that was five years ago. Only issue I had is finding a small ATA disk as the boot drive is ATA. The raid disks are SATA.

Turnkey, ease of use, partner-acceptance-factor and resilience. Most consumer RAID cards are tulipe and software raid is rarely the place to be, unless you're doing something with JBOD.

If I wanted a NAS for the wife and I to store things on I'd go off the shelf, for sure.

[vwdan]

I also have a general dislike of raid 5 for media servers as it doesn't really offer anything that can't be achieved via a parity system (unraid / snapraid / grumpy) yet requires all disks to be installed at the same start point (resulting in compounded risk).

Nobody should be using RAID5 for anything, ideally.

[SimonMac]

Going for a 4 disk RAID10, need to work out if I should bother keeping the good 2TB drive in my existing NAS or not as its a fair few years old anyway