[Discuss] NAS: lots of bays vs. lots of boxes

[ozbek at gmx.com (F. O. Ozbek)]

On 07/10/2015 03:36 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 7/10/2015 3:08 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
>> But like many nice ideas, this one only goes so far: after a few cycles
>> you can't get matched replacement disks and a bit later technology
>> likely changes enough you need to rethink everything.
>
> This is one way that ZFS and Btrfs are superior: they don't require
> matching drives like traditional RAID.
>

MooseFS goes one step further, being RAIN, not
only it doesn't require matching hard-drives but it doesn't
require matching chunk servers either.

-- F. Ozbek