Recent content by s3ct0r

Btw, Areca has a nice CLI that can be take advantage of as well.

*21TB array...

That is correct, in part. Areca will pass some, not all (yes they are greedy) errors up to the OS, after which point they get buried until you see a red light. Controllers think they "know" best, which they do then a drive actually fails, but are not so good with the leadup. You need to have a...

A decent S.M.A.R.T. monitoring package should be more than sufficient in your case. As long as you can keep an eye on errors, relocations and etc you can anticipate failures. This is to an extent. Keep in mind the mechanical parts in consumer grade disks are of "less" quality as well, hence the...

One thing you might want to consider, depending on what you are using all this storage for, is drive reliability. Consumer grade SATA drives are a good cheap solution, but reliability goes out the door...especially at heavy usage loads. Worst yet, unless you randomize the purchase order...