Out with the old, in with the new

[Dylan]

Finally got the Aoostar this week and HexOS installed today. The Aoostar (on the right) will be replacing the 10yo 2x4TB Netgear ReadyNAS (on the left). That thing still does its thang with the ORIGINAL drives! I put 4x8TB drives in the new NAS giving me about 23TB of storage. I won't move anything important over to the new device until at least 1.0 and/or until raid2z is fully supported.

Really pleased with the build quality of the Aoostar device. Solid framing, quiet fan and lots of ports.

[Nandroya]

Great step Up That one

[Duckle]

Dang that Aoostar looks neat!.

I understand wanting to wait for 1.0 for important data, but why RAID2Z in a 4-bay NAS? Why not just raid10 then? Is it because you potentially could move to a bigger case/server in the future and expand the pool?

[Dylan]

43 minutes ago, Duckle said:

Dang that Aoostar looks neat!.

I understand wanting to wait for 1.0 for important data, but why RAID2Z in a 4-bay NAS? Why not just raid10 then? Is it because you potentially could move to a bigger case/server in the future and expand the pool?

No, it's more for the better redundancy. In a raidz2 config I can survive ANY two disk failures whereas raid10 only two SPECIFIC drive failures. Plus were running ZFS so no need for hardware raid.

[Duckle]

Ahh yeah good point. Didn't think about that! 🙂

[misterlegend]

The power button cover really is a nice touch.

[Dylan]

4 hours ago, misterlegend said:

The power button cover really is a nice touch.

That is the EXACT reason the Netgear is facing the wall. That damn blue light could land an airplane!