Potato - pot-AH-to, I guess ... My bad.. been working with Microshaft too long.. and since I've only fairly recently begun my "Adventures in FreeNAS" (considering my total exposure to 'network storage systems'.. heh-heh.. anyone remember Novell 4?), my terminology is arguably no doubt 'somewhat limited'.
But... If memory serves, we went 'down that avenue' in discussions about "..what do you really want..?", which is when one of the 'management team' came out with "RAID-5". And since it is my understanding that RAIDz2 would require 4 drives (and was what I mentioned at the time), this became a little bit of a 'sticky issue'. So we proposed this as a 'viable alternative' insofar as there's so few users accessing this system presently; and disk space was (to a degree) one of their preliminary concerns. But, actually it seemed the over-riding consideration(s) were more focused on 'total costs', ultimately.
This is not a particularly large, nor (by some measure) massively 'successful' small firm, and in my estimation, such considerations can often influence those overall decisions regarding 'expenditures'.
My intent (read: hope) is that this might 'prove its worth' over a period of time, and convince 'the powers that be' that the 'vagaries' and 'capricious nature' of Microsoft Server systems (am I being sufficiently PC, here..?) will become as evident to them as it has to me over some uh - damn - 35+ years (?) working with MS. So at my 'advancing age', FreeNAS and Linux is my attempt to 'migrate' away from such 'frustrations'... As well as overall costs...
Just sayin'....
But... If memory serves, we went 'down that avenue' in discussions about "..what do you really want..?", which is when one of the 'management team' came out with "RAID-5". And since it is my understanding that RAIDz2 would require 4 drives (and was what I mentioned at the time), this became a little bit of a 'sticky issue'. So we proposed this as a 'viable alternative' insofar as there's so few users accessing this system presently; and disk space was (to a degree) one of their preliminary concerns. But, actually it seemed the over-riding consideration(s) were more focused on 'total costs', ultimately.
This is not a particularly large, nor (by some measure) massively 'successful' small firm, and in my estimation, such considerations can often influence those overall decisions regarding 'expenditures'.
My intent (read: hope) is that this might 'prove its worth' over a period of time, and convince 'the powers that be' that the 'vagaries' and 'capricious nature' of Microsoft Server systems (am I being sufficiently PC, here..?) will become as evident to them as it has to me over some uh - damn - 35+ years (?) working with MS. So at my 'advancing age', FreeNAS and Linux is my attempt to 'migrate' away from such 'frustrations'... As well as overall costs...
Just sayin'....
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