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Synology with hybrid RAID alternative? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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I currently have an HP micro server gen 8 with Xpenology with hybrid raid, which works fairly well, but I’m 2 major versions behind. I’m quite happy with it, but I-d like to have an easier upgrade process, and more options. My main use is NAS and a couple of apps. I’d like to have more flexibility, to easily have an arr suite, etc.

Considerdering the hassle of safely upgrading xpenology because of the hybrid raid (4+4+2+2 Gb HDDs) I-d like a setup which I can easily upgrade and modify.

What are my options here? What RAID options are there that easily and efficiently these these disks?

I don-t have the spare money right now to replace the 2Gb disks. Planned in the future

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you just want a NAS, TrueNAS core and zfs, probably.

If you want to run services, run docker on an OS on bare metal and either zfs or two mirrors, optionally joined with lvm. I don't think I'd recommend putting all four disks in one array.

Personally I run a bunch of stuff, so I have docker on alma on proxmox.

[–] one_knight_scripting 1 points 1 day ago

Hah. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of ZFS. I do have a project involving it though.