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Comment by GauntletWizard

Comment by GauntletWizard 6 months ago

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That's not entirely true, Unraid has mechanisms for unbalanced disks, but they come at a high cost in terms of usability by standard workloads.

ryao 6 months ago

Unraid is not a RAID technology:

> Unraid saves data to individual drives rather than spreading single files out over multiple drives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unraid#Software-defined_NAS

At least, it is not one in the sense of the original RAID paper that coined the term:

https://web.mit.edu/6.033/2015/wwwdocs/papers/Patterson88.pd...

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