Hey there,
I have in my head to step away from my normal NAS (a Drobo 5N, old version) to make my small VMware server a hybrid between VMware (although I'm looking at Qemu/KVM) and NAS.
Why? Well the simplest answer is: finance, my Drobo is 5 slots and currently has 5x6TB disks. Going for the next step is making it more and more expensive, so I'd want to spread the cost by going to an enclosure with 8 disks.
So I've been looking at FreeNAS, but I'm not entirely sure if it offers the same as my Drobo: for my Drobo it doesn't matter what size or type of harddisk I shove in there, it will always make it redundant, sure at some configurations there's more loss than other configurations but I never have to care about doing some weird setup.
So is FreeNAS capable of doing the same? Like example with my drobo: I gradually upgraded to 5x6TB, like no more than a year ago I was on 2x 3TB and 3x6TB, I just added the 2x 6TB and the Drobo itself added the extra storage without any interaction of myself.
I have in my head to step away from my normal NAS (a Drobo 5N, old version) to make my small VMware server a hybrid between VMware (although I'm looking at Qemu/KVM) and NAS.
Why? Well the simplest answer is: finance, my Drobo is 5 slots and currently has 5x6TB disks. Going for the next step is making it more and more expensive, so I'd want to spread the cost by going to an enclosure with 8 disks.
So I've been looking at FreeNAS, but I'm not entirely sure if it offers the same as my Drobo: for my Drobo it doesn't matter what size or type of harddisk I shove in there, it will always make it redundant, sure at some configurations there's more loss than other configurations but I never have to care about doing some weird setup.
So is FreeNAS capable of doing the same? Like example with my drobo: I gradually upgraded to 5x6TB, like no more than a year ago I was on 2x 3TB and 3x6TB, I just added the 2x 6TB and the Drobo itself added the extra storage without any interaction of myself.