1mo ago

Drivebender replacement

As title states. I'm looking for a drivebender replacement. I've been eyeing drivepool and it's probably what I'm going with but I'd like to know what else might be out there. This is for a JBoD setup. Backups happen to offsite location, so I'm not worried about backups.

20 comments

Not at all a helpful comment to your question, but what's drive bender?
- It's a drive pooling application for windows, lets you merge multiple drives into a single mount.
  
  Yep, it's great for those of us who are lazy lol
Why not UnRaid or TrueNAS?
- Windows domain. Just what I've stuck with.
  
  And? Both of those can participate in Windows Domain Services.
Doesn't windows have storage spaces or something like that? I'm not familiar with windows for any kind of server stuff but I remember reading some things.
- It does but it's not great from what I've read for jbod setups. Drivebender has been awesome for over a decade for me. It balances everything and even lets me keep local backups, so if one drive dies it's got a copy on another drive.
  
  if one drive dies it's got a copy on another drive
  Do you want JBOD or a RAID? Cause dealing with disk failure is a feature of RAID
Mergerfs is kind of the gold standard herr but i dont think it is winfows

20 comments