Posted: 5/5/2012 2:26:43 PM EDT
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Two years ago I began researching NAS software to build a NAS, but all options lacked the one thing I need the most, and several commercial systems offer... Dynamically resizing the array with additional, different sized disks (ala Drobo, QNAP, ReadyNAS). Synology offers it, but the user has to power down the array, swap disk(s), and then power it back up to allow the rebuild.
I have a closet full of old hardware and would really like to forgo spending $500-700 on a commercial system and build my own. My goal is to build two identical NAS systems and mirror them. That would be a very expensive project using commercial systems (Netgear, last time I checked, wants $150 for the software feature to allow duplicating to another ReayNAS). Can anyone tell me if, in the past couple of years, any free NAS software has matured to allow transparent dynamic array resizing? I looked at some free options that claimed to allow this feature, but all involved logging into the management interface and manually configuring things. I just want to pop out an old disk and pop in a larger one. Or add a few more. And then walk away while the system does its own thing automatically. Options? Thanks. |