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does anyone know if openmediavault supports putting random drives of different capacity into a pool? and if it can, can it act like old windows server where it would offer redundancy for that pool? (I don't have money to build a proper freenas box, I've already thought of that)

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5 minutes ago, Atomicnerd64 said:

does anyone know if openmediavault supports putting random drives of different capacity into a pool? and if it can, can it act like old windows server where it would offer redundancy for that pool? (I don't have money to build a proper freenas box, I've already thought of that)

I think it does.

 

Id personally use btrfs on centos 7 as it supports raid 5/6/10/1 with mismatched drives.

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Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

I think it does.

 

Id personally use btrfs on centos 7 as it supports raid 5/6/10/1 with mismatched drives.

I am not familiar with centos. I have fiddled with ubuntu, mint (ew..), I just installed arch, and I installed fedora 3 weeks ago but have yet to use it. is there a guide for what you recommended?

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1 minute ago, Atomicnerd64 said:

I am not familiar with centos. I have fiddled with ubuntu, mint (ew..), I just installed arch, and I installed fedora 3 weeks ago but have yet to use it. is there a guide for what you recommended?

You can use ubuntu just fine. Its the same thing. Id personally use centos as its supported for longer(until 2024) and i am more used to to.

 

Id use ubuntu server as there is no use for a gui(webmin is a good web gui if you want that.)

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gui is not my problem and I don't have a problem trying centos as well. I just want a something like a guide because I am not really experienced with software raid

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20 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You can use ubuntu just fine. Its the same thing. Id personally use centos as its supported for longer(until 2024) and i am more used to to.

 

Id use ubuntu server as there is no use for a gui(webmin is a good web gui if you want that.)

gui is not my problem and I don't have a problem trying centos as well. I just want a something like a guide because I am not really experienced with software raid

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5 minutes ago, Atomicnerd64 said:

gui is not my problem and I don't have a problem trying centos as well. I just want a something like a guide because I am not really experienced with software raid

Do know how drive letters work on linux?

 

Can you setup samba on linux?

 

You can basically do this assuming you know how to do basic linux stuff and samba/iscsi

  

mkfs.btrfs -m raid1 -d raid5 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde
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