@thwr said in Need advice on OS X Server & DAS/NAS:
@scottalanmiller said in Need advice on OS X Server & DAS/NAS:
@travisdh1 said in Need advice on OS X Server & DAS/NAS:
They figured out how to do parity RAID with dis-similar drives. Something ZFS has been doing for how many years before Drobo?
It's not parity with dissimilar exactly, that always works. Always has. It's parity with dissimilar drives while getting maximum usable capacity out of the drives using a horrific mix of RAID levels. It's a terrible thing to do.
Goosebumps, everytime I'm seeing this. The idea is good, but how they made it...
Even the idea isn't good. It's "Oh, people refuse to listen and buy many dissimilar drives... instead of punishing them for this, we'll pretend that this is just fine and screw their reliability and performance because they aren't paying attention anyway and who cares, it isn't our data."