Expansion Calculator

[JMac]

I'm new to servers and hosting self storage and so on, so far I have enjoyed the easy UI of HexOS Beta, great work so far. As a new guy who doesn't fully understand all the terminology and how the raid stuff works I think it would be neat to have a calculator on the dashboard that you could tell HexOS "I want 8Tb of usable storage, what drive size/counts would it take" and it be like "You need 4x 4Tb for this config or 2x 8Tb for for this config".

 

IDK just thinking out loud as I try learning how this stuff works.

[HomeHosted]

2 minutes ago, JMac said:

I'm new to servers and hosting self storage and so on, so far I have enjoyed the easy UI of HexOS Beta, great work so far. As a new guy who doesn't fully understand all the terminology and how the raid stuff works I think it would be neat to have a calculator on the dashboard that you could tell HexOS "I want 8Tb of usable storage, what drive size/counts would it take" and it be like "You need 4x 4Tb for this config or 2x 8Tb for for this config".

 

IDK just thinking out loud as I try learning how this stuff works.

https://wintelguy.com/zfs-calc.pl
Here is a calculator for ya.
It might make sense but with how many different configs you can make it would be a bigger task then you would expect, and personally I would rather see them put time into new applications.

[JMac]

5 minutes ago, HomeHosted said:

https://wintelguy.com/zfs-calc.pl
Here is a calculator for ya.
It might make sense but with how many different configs you can make it would be a bigger task then you would expect, and personally I would rather see them put time into new applications.

Ah ha, so there is a calculator out there. 

I may have seen it early while trying to figure this stuff out and didn't realize what it actually was, but thanks @HomeHosted.

[Tim Larson]

The site https://hexoscalculator.com seems to work well. It is simple up front, but has some advanced features as well.