timmay wrote:
(building a fence to sit on)
Whist I see the benifits of Hardware and Software RAID support, I can see that it introduces a technical element that may conflict with the values/goals of the Software.
The original goals of the software (from what I understand) deliver a low cost network storage solution for the mass market (newbies and geeks incluslive) which could run on a varying hardware specifications. I can start to see that if too much is supported then areas such as program cost or support might be unduly affected. I appreciate and understand that we should keep up with the evolving currents of the industry, however I'm of the position "if it ain't broke why fix it".
I kow Tony/Ralph/invited others are testing V2.x of NASLite and it may be a good idea if we start a threat with our wishlist. I know there are scattered threads on all forums, but to collectivly dump this knowledge into one would be nice and make it wasier for the developers to work with our ideas.
(jumps down from soap box)
T.
Actually as I understand it they plan on supporting hardware RAID by supporting certain RAID controller cards. I find this surprising since it brushes aside the old notion of this running on any old hardware. Suddenly I'm into having to buy specific hardware for my NASLite box.
It seems to me that offering software RAID as an option would return us to the world of using otherwise defunct hardware.
On the other hand the Server Elements guys seem to like the idea of not storing a lot of configuration and I like that too. But really if Windows can import a software RAID set from a dead machine then why not NASLite?
The fact is that my old hardware isn't so very old that it can't run Windows 2000 Server. And with that I get all the capabilities of NASLite plus a lot more.
John