Airbender 113 Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Hello Guys Does anyone know any good Software that does Software Raid 1 and mirror 2 drives ? i dont trust Windows built it Raid or mirror option and i am not sure how well does it work Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyFr79 228 Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Windows mirroring works fine, not too much can go wrong with mirroring since both drives are the same "image" you can pull a drive an the other will work just fine even with windows built in RAID, nothing to worry about. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted October 21, 2013 Author Share Posted October 21, 2013 hello how long it takes for windows mirror option to work ? in all you tube video it seem likey few munites which got me worried about software raid thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swhitmore 781 Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 FlexRAID for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyFr79 228 Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 hello how long it takes for windows mirror option to work ? in all you tube video it seem likey few munites which got me worried about software raid thing Didn't seem to take long at all on my machine. But mirroring can be done in the background as well so it's not a huge issue. It's not like building a RAID 5 array or something like that, that can take some serious time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted October 22, 2013 Author Share Posted October 22, 2013 FlexRAID for sure. Hi i did not know that FlexRaid can do Mirror too ? i asked before but it seems no one answer me about that Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigiTM 60 Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 (edited) Should one use T-RAID or RAID-F if they were going the Flexraid option? Purely for media storage. I ask because currently using RAID-F, but if T-RAID is better I'll move to that one. Edited November 4, 2013 by DigiTM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraslor 70 Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 Using raid-f here as well, plan on switching to t-raid at some point for one important feature. if a drive fails in F your array is offline until repaired, with T only the data on the failed drive is missing and you can rebuild on the fly while still accessing all your other data, more of a hot swap method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaefurr 1337 Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 Yes flexraid can be used to mirror drives. Just google flexraid mirror to find the how to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigiTM 60 Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 Using raid-f here as well, plan on switching to t-raid at some point for one important feature. if a drive fails in F your array is offline until repaired, with T only the data on the failed drive is missing and you can rebuild on the fly while still accessing all your other data, more of a hot swap method. Yeah that's handy. Wonder if T-Raid can includes USB hard drives like F-Raid. Also concerned that T-Raid does not support network mapped drives as part of the RAID? Yet network mapping is best for Mediabrowser Server. Unless I'm thinking of this wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted November 4, 2013 Author Share Posted November 4, 2013 hello very interesting as i was looking into T-Raid today vs f-raid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigiTM 60 Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 (edited) T-Raid does USB. I have taken the plunge and trialing T-RAID. Going to take forever though what with building a 38Tb raid No viewing tonight, I think I should've checked with my partner before doing this. edit: 4 Hours and only 13%. Edited November 4, 2013 by DigiTM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnchimpo 7 Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 When I did my initial RAID5 2TBx4 build Intel took more than 4 days to initialize, so I don't want to hear about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted November 5, 2013 Author Share Posted November 5, 2013 Hi so can someone explain the difference between T-Raid and F Raid because it not making any sense to me to be honest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 Issue resolved i am going with Raid F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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