Anyone know of any Unraid alternatives?
I like the idea of being able to add any size HD to increase the overall size of the partition with only needing 1 drive at least as big as the biggest drive for parity, and im not too bothered about striping, but with unraid you cant use the server for anything else. I want to run a home fileserver / LAMP server, thinking about using FreeBSD or Ubuntu, i use FreeBSD on my dedicated server in california, and ive installed Ubuntu on the demo web server at work (the rest of the ppl like using a gui, i usually just ssh into it and pretend its debian) ive got a motherboard with dual 3ghz xeons on it and 2GB ram that im gonna use, its got a couple of pci-x slots so gonna look at putting a raid card in, was gonna go with hardware raid, but not sure theres any point really, just go with an 8 or 12 port software raid card, any thoughts on any of it?


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) ive got a motherboard with dual 3ghz xeons on it and 2GB ram that im gonna use, its got a couple of pci-x slots so gonna look at putting a raid card in, was gonna go with hardware raid, but not sure theres any point really, just go with an 8 or 12 port software raid card, any thoughts on any of it?

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my motherboard has no onboard sata ports so i need a card to provide the ports, the only reason i was even looking at "fakeraid" cards was because they were cheaper than hardware raid cards
