Category: Storage
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High-performance NAS on Windows Storage Spaces
Storage Spaces is a great technology natively presented in Windows. With Storage Spaces you can create volumes with different resiliency settings, including parity (N+1 and N+2). This configuration is very efficient when storing large amounts of data. Many users are experiencing slow performance when writing files larger than 1 GB on Parity volumes, caused by…
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Software defined NAS
In this article we will select a software for a self-built NAS. For inexperienced users I strongly suggest to buy a ready solution like Synology. They are easier to use and have a commercial support. For anyone interested how to build an affordable NAS from computer, let’s do it! Selection criteria Here is a list…
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Benchmarking high-capacity NAS drives
At some point I decided to build a NAS with a maximum capacity at minimum cost. After some research I found Seagate 16 TB HDDs that had the least price per TB. So I bought: All the purchased disks have exactly the same usable capacity of 16,000,900,661,248 Bytes, same SATA v3 interface and rotation speed…
