It’s proprietary, after all. I understand paid is fine, but even then, it usually better be open source.

So, why is Unraid an exception ?

Thanks

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    18 hours ago

    The big thing is very easily mix and match different sizes of disks. ZFS as of recently can sort of do that, but its not as efficient.

    • daq@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      Mergerfs can do that too and you can keep the underlying fs as whatever you want.

      • B0rax@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        9 hours ago

        Yes, but it does not have redundancy or caching. Redundancy can be achieved with snapraid, but how you get caching I don’t know…

      • eclipse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Not really with the same flexibility.

        You only get usable capacity of the smallest disk in a vdev or you have to add a new vdev with your newly sized disks.

        Unraid lets you mix and match however you like and get all the usable capacity (as long as your parity is your largest sized disks).

      • percent@infosec.pubEnglish
        41·
        11 hours ago

        Can it access a file without spinning up all disks in the array?

        I haven’t used ZFS in like a decade, but would strongly consider going back to it if it can do that now.