Not at all a helpful comment to your question, but what's drive bender?
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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
I know this isn't the answer you want but ditch windows. There's a million better ways to do it better on BSD or linux
I think my main thing to is, if something breaks my wife can figure it out even without me around. If I go to BSD or linux...well cards are off the table at that point.
That's fair enough. I just accepted that I'm always going to have to fix the computer issues no matter what. So I just make it easier on myself.
Reasonable justification as well
Why not UnRaid or TrueNAS?
Windows domain. Just what I've stuck with.
And? Both of those can participate in Windows Domain Services.
Yea I know, but I'm not looking to cross over into something that I have little experience with just yet. I'm just looking for a set and forget style design.
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
I don't really need speed. RAID is for people who like to spend money on same size/speed drives
Most RAID levels are for redundancy, not speed and software RAID doesn't need drives of the same size.
The RAID I'm talking about requires same size and speed of drives to be optimal. Otherwise it goes with the smallest and slowest drive in the array.
You talking about unraid?
I'm talking about software RAID, for example btrfs.
Ah, yea that's fair.
Mergerfs is kind of the gold standard herr but i dont think it is winfows