Hi, I’m a long time user of Stablebit Drivepool (and Drivebender before that) which I chose simply because I could add disks of varying sizes I had laying around or could buy in high capacity cheaply occasionally to top up the system or replace failing drives.
I really like this idea so built myself an HBA attached enclosure to house 12x 3.5” spinning drives and squeezed a few more onto the motherboard sata connectors of the PC I dedicated to being the storage server.
I decided against using MS storage spaces because I read so many bad experiences from users it kinda put me off.
I would like to know if there is a better solution out there these days that can still accept random sized drives as I like to use them until they literally die (my drive pool is entirely duplicated for this reason) .
Drivebender and Drivepool always feel a little bit clunky and slow connecting and using for my video edit pc over my direct network connection (10Gbe Mellonox cards) compared to local drives and I would also really like to increase the speed by adding some SSD’s as cache drives for read and write if that’s even possible and/or a benefit.
I’ve read that caches drives aren’t very well implemented in Drivepool and only work for writing.
So is there anything else out there I should consider taking into account my requirements or should I just continue to plod along with Drivepool
Thanks 👍🏻