On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:37:10 +0000, you wrote:
What software are you using?
Do you mean to do the raiding, or the other file transfer system to which I alluded? Secure FTP and ADCS for the file transfer, don't know what I'd use for the RAID array. You could use ZFS or another comprobable filesystem and forgo the use of a RAID controller, on Windows you could use storage spaces. I was actually thinking of doing that, using ZFS, that is. I don't ever go upwards of 2TB on RAID-5 arrays but that is for work situations. Gee, why even bother then, since you can get more than 2TB on one drive all by itself. Unless you're talking about mirroring. I am really happy with the Synology NAS hardware as well, but the user interface is very difficult using a screen reader. That's why I don't want to buy another one of their boxes, although their DSM version 2 worked so darn well, I hate giving it up because the old DS407e's won't support larger drives, and they're real slow compared to the new models. When you say the new interface is difficult with a screenreader, is it difficult to the point of impossibility, or just annoyingly difficult? In other words, could I make it work, or isn't it worth the trying? I'm actually quite disappointed Synology doesn't document the CLI commands required to do what their HTML-based interface does. If we had access to the CLI, we could just ditch the HTML front-end overlay and rule the world. So, getting back to my original question, if I used ZFS on a Linux system like Fedora 20 (Heisenbug), Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or 13.04 LTS or whatever LTS is out these days, what hardware controllers do you recommend? Or since I have a box with enough SATA ports, should I just use them?