https://sigtar.com/tags/home-server/ Recent content in Home-Server on sigtar.com Hugo en-nz Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 +1200 https://sigtar.com/2013/05/18/why-is-unraid-cool-for-home/ Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 +1200 https://sigtar.com/2013/05/18/why-is-unraid-cool-for-home/ <p>I&rsquo;ve played with many storage technologies at home, ZFS being one of my favs when it comes to performance. But i&rsquo;ve been looking for something that suits a typical home environment where power usage and capacity is usually more important than performance. Thats where UNRAID has come in&hellip;</p> <p>UNRAID give me these advantages;</p> <ul> <li>Different sized disks in a single pool (only requires largest disk as parity)</li> <li>Files are distributed over all the disks - so even if you lost more than a single drive you still still have some of your data. Note : with parity drive you can handle a single drive failing without loosing anything, sorta like RAID4 - non distributed parity.</li> <li>Power usage, since the files are stored on specific disks not all the disks need to power on to give you your file.</li> <li>Runs on a USB stick - no large operating system required.</li> <li>Crashplan module can be installed to provide backup options.</li> </ul> <p><a href="http://lime-technology.com/">http://lime-technology.com/</a></p>