There is an interesting thread over on the AVS forums discussing the pros and cons of unRAID, FlexRAID and SnapRAID. They all have their advantages and disadvantages, and the following post bullet points them nicely. Realtime protection: unRAID and FlexRAID offer real-time parity both only offer a single parity drive solution at this stage (both have plans [...]
Brahim has added a blog post explaining NZFS (Next-Generation Zion File System) and going into the the typical data storage problem: Optimal Capacity vs Optimal Performance vs Optimal Protection NZFS can deal with the above limitations and “NZFS is implemented as a two part series: A completely independent RAID system that works with any file system [...]
FreeNAS is a great NAS (Network Attached Server) operating system, but it’s not the only one. “There are multiple reasons behind looking for FreeNAS alternatives. Despite the software being a popular choice and also intuitive to use for sharing content across multiple platform like Linux, Apple and Windows, there are always a few drawbacks that [...]
Jim Metcalf has put together a 3-part series of articles reviewing unRAID. He goes through unRAID‘s installation and configuring. He also explains the tradeoffs and install details of unRAID storage alternative to Windows Home Server (WHS). unRAID Server – Part 1 The Journey to unRAID unRAID Server – Part 2 Installing unRAID unRAID Server – Part 3 Configuring [...]
Ben Long has written a post on PC World website on his experience with Lime Technology‘s unRAID. It’s not so much about how to build a home media server with unRAID, but more an account of his (positive) experience: “One benefit of digital media distribution is that you can store all of your music, movies, [...]