Re: well I lost everything on my server
Actually not difficult if we are talking about HD's and software RAID. My NAS is a HP Microserver with 5 WD Red's running software ZFS-raid (RAIDZ) under Nas4free. The whole Nas4free is installed on a bootable USB-pen. If I need to move my NAS to new hardware, I pull the drives and the USB-pen, connect it up to new hardware and boot. Should the USB-pen be bad, I keep a copy of the config file elsewhere.
Due to space restrictions and drive sizes at the time, I elected to have only RAID-Z1 to achieve my storage needs. RAID-Z2 is possible, but not recommended on a 5 disk setup. It's possible to use up to RAID-Z3 with ZFS, were up to 3 drives can go bad, and still save the pool.
Originally posted by Curious.George
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Due to space restrictions and drive sizes at the time, I elected to have only RAID-Z1 to achieve my storage needs. RAID-Z2 is possible, but not recommended on a 5 disk setup. It's possible to use up to RAID-Z3 with ZFS, were up to 3 drives can go bad, and still save the pool.
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