Drivebender replacement
from SupraMario@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 04:32
https://lemmy.world/post/31356474

As title states. I’m looking for a drivebender replacement. I’ve been eyeing drivepool and it’s probably what I’m going with but I’d like to know what else might be out there. This is for a JBoD setup. Backups happen to offsite location, so I’m not worried about backups.

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just_another_person@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 04:48 next collapse

Why not UnRaid or TrueNAS?

SupraMario@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 05:48 collapse

Windows domain. Just what I’ve stuck with.

just_another_person@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 07:21 collapse

And? Both of those can participate in Windows Domain Services.

SupraMario@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 08:00 collapse

Yea I know, but I’m not looking to cross over into something that I have little experience with just yet. I’m just looking for a set and forget style design.

Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works on 14 Jun 14:29 next collapse

Not at all a helpful comment to your question, but what’s drive bender?

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 14 Jun 15:35 collapse

It’s a drive pooling application for windows, lets you merge multiple drives into a single mount.

SupraMario@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 18:12 collapse

Yep, it’s great for those of us who are lazy lol

Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works on 14 Jun 18:22 collapse

I know this isn’t the answer you want but ditch windows. There’s a million better ways to do it better on BSD or linux

SupraMario@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 18:51 collapse

I think my main thing to is, if something breaks my wife can figure it out even without me around. If I go to BSD or linux…well cards are off the table at that point.

Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works on 14 Jun 20:14 collapse

That’s fair enough. I just accepted that I’m always going to have to fix the computer issues no matter what. So I just make it easier on myself.

SupraMario@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 04:19 collapse

Reasonable justification as well

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 14 Jun 15:35 next collapse

Doesn’t windows have storage spaces or something like that? I’m not familiar with windows for any kind of server stuff but I remember reading some things.

SupraMario@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 18:12 collapse

It does but it’s not great from what I’ve read for jbod setups. Drivebender has been awesome for over a decade for me. It balances everything and even lets me keep local backups, so if one drive dies it’s got a copy on another drive.

InnerScientist@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 00:21 collapse

if one drive dies it’s got a copy on another drive

Do you want JBOD or a RAID? Cause dealing with disk failure is a feature of RAID

SupraMario@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 04:20 collapse

I don’t really need speed. RAID is for people who like to spend money on same size/speed drives

InnerScientist@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 04:51 collapse

Most RAID levels are for redundancy, not speed and software RAID doesn’t need drives of the same size.

SupraMario@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 05:04 collapse

The RAID I’m talking about requires same size and speed of drives to be optimal. Otherwise it goes with the smallest and slowest drive in the array.

You talking about unraid?

InnerScientist@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 09:18 collapse

I’m talking about software RAID, for example btrfs.

SupraMario@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 12:50 collapse

Ah, yea that’s fair.

ssdfsdf3488sd@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 19:31 collapse

Mergerfs is kind of the gold standard herr but i dont think it is winfows