TheSandman2236
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Looking for a brain dead simple storage device that rebuilds on the fly from the drive pool. Does this exist (That is not a drobo)?
Thanks guys!
Thanks guys!
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Take a look at Synology.
BYO with freeNAS is dead simple.
Otherwise There are lots of other NAS products to choose from.
You remove the failed drive, pop in the replacement, login to the management software and add the drive to the volume. My only slight annoyance I have with the process is that there is no option to have it automatically start the rebuild process, you have to login to initiate it. Sure, there are reasons not to automatically do it, but they should have that option, imo.
Are you sure they don't Neb, I'm fairly sure when this happened to my 1512 all I had to do was stick in the new drive in the old slot and it auto-rebuilt
Fucking Drobo... fuck Drobo.
Can you believe that some moron used a bunch of B800i for enterprise level storage before I showed up to my current job? The things were so slow you couldn't perform a nightly incremental.
/thread jack
I'll go ahead and retest it when I get home tonight, will report back. Maybe they changed it in 4.2? When I tested I was on 4.1 I believe.
I know there's a rebuild button in the storage manager but I don't recall having to actually go in and click it... this was on 4.2 (happened less than a month ago).
Thanks guys I appreciate it. I really find it hard to believe in all of the reviews I've seen NO ONE highlights the restore feature -- or simulates a drive failure etc to see how well a device will restore the data.
While Synology doesn’t explicitly mention this capability, the DS411+ appears to support hot-swapping drives. We simulated a drive failure by unplugging one of the drives in a RAID5 configuration and loaded in a replacement drive while the unit was still turned on. The DS411+ put up quite fuss with its beeping to let us know the RAID was in degraded mode, but it quickly started to rebuild once we initiated the repair.
It's a bit old of a review but storagereview.com simulated a failure:
http://www.storagereview.com/synology_diskstation_ds411_review
I do agree with dragon that it's probably glossed over because it's really simple and easy to restore a failed drive. Login to interface, a couple of clicks and you're done (after a few hours of rebuilding).
Awesome -- thanks! Do they mention what would happen in the event that your device physically failed? ie. they sent you a replacement device, would it be easy to just swap the new drives back in and move forward with little/no-hassle?