I am considering adding an additional server to my lab and this time going with another open (open media vault, ubuntu lts server 20.04, maybe truenas core) to learn something new and get around a few items that I have not been able to get going in xpenology (16 threads, CPU Turbo)
Nothing else I look at seems to trust BTRFS in RAID 5 and offer the snapshots, self healing, and file system scrubbing that is so straight forward with a Synology/Xpenology
apparantly generic advice is
-RAID 5 / 6 build into BTRFS is not ready for prime time, it is NOT usable for prod.
-You can make an mdadm RAID5 then format it with BTRFS, but that is a bad idea (unsure why)
Does anyone here have a solid understanding of what Synology does differently that the other linux based options?
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mervincm
Hi Folks!
I am considering adding an additional server to my lab and this time going with another open (open media vault, ubuntu lts server 20.04, maybe truenas core) to learn something new and get around a few items that I have not been able to get going in xpenology (16 threads, CPU Turbo)
Nothing else I look at seems to trust BTRFS in RAID 5 and offer the snapshots, self healing, and file system scrubbing that is so straight forward with a Synology/Xpenology
apparantly generic advice is
-RAID 5 / 6 build into BTRFS is not ready for prime time, it is NOT usable for prod.
-You can make an mdadm RAID5 then format it with BTRFS, but that is a bad idea (unsure why)
Does anyone here have a solid understanding of what Synology does differently that the other linux based options?
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