Hi, If using ZFS you don't need a RAID controller at all, you can do all the work in ZFS itself and just buy a machine with enough SATA ports. Re the Synology, I would say it was seriously annoying with a screen reader but I have tricks to get round the interface. They are mainly using the Jaws find feature to find keywords on the screen etc. I don't use the extended features on the device however. Re the 2TB drive limit, I meant that I don't put higher than 2TB into an array, I typically mean RAID-6 arrays. I don't want the rebuilt time extended. I think I asked you this before but do you use JFW scripts for Forte Agent? I never got versions upwards of 2.x to work with JFW, I am still using 1.93 for newsgroup access. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Steve Matzura Sent: 23 November 2014 00:06 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] RAID Controller recommendations 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? _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins