Airbender 113 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Hello guys Just trying to share my experience with everyone about tRaid transparent raid from FlexRAID This is my third time trying to open a post here and it keep failing and not sure what is causing the it. First of all FlexRAID fourm does not have any doc on how to install and their wiki is down and fourm is dead so no one will help anyone. I am not looking for any support or help here as i said i am just trying to share my experiences with everyone and anyone who wants to get into tRaid Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted December 17, 2013 Author Share Posted December 17, 2013 Hi So now i am able to open this post so here is little summary tRaid requires 2 software host and client , and there wiki might have a howto for both but as they are down nothing much i can do here but i found out that Host is zip file with no exe but client web ui has a exe and it install just fine after the install traid reques a user to put a user name and password which is Admin for both After that the tRaid need a host to be setup before a user can do anything and that where i am stuck ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted December 17, 2013 Author Share Posted December 17, 2013 Here are some screenshots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Airbender 113 Posted December 17, 2013 Author Share Posted December 17, 2013 Hi sorry not trying to dos the fourm anyway i will try with traid tomorrow and update here so everyone can learn and mybe some other guys would try it too Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted December 19, 2013 Author Share Posted December 19, 2013 Hello Interesting that tRaid requires the PRU parity drive to be fully empty no data or volume in it also to start tRaid it need at lest 2 DRU data drive Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted December 19, 2013 Author Share Posted December 19, 2013 Hi So here is screen shots of Raid starting in tRaid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted December 19, 2013 Author Share Posted December 19, 2013 Hi so now i am starting to build the raid and it seems tRaid is faster then f Raid Please see this screenshots Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted December 20, 2013 Author Share Posted December 20, 2013 Hello here is little update I left my pc with tRaid today morning and it was at 23% now come back home and it is 1 am and it stuck at 23% i will look into it more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted January 10, 2014 Author Share Posted January 10, 2014 Hello here is the first video of mini series on HOWTO install and configure tRaid Hope you guys like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted January 11, 2014 Author Share Posted January 11, 2014 Hello here is video number 2 enjoy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted January 11, 2014 Author Share Posted January 11, 2014 Hello Here is video number 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted January 11, 2014 Author Share Posted January 11, 2014 Hello Video number 4 Enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted January 11, 2014 Author Share Posted January 11, 2014 Hello Here is Video number 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted January 11, 2014 Author Share Posted January 11, 2014 Hello Here is video number 6 Last video for tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted January 12, 2014 Author Share Posted January 12, 2014 Hello Video number 7 Please note i used bad hard drive tRaid works just fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted January 12, 2014 Author Share Posted January 12, 2014 Hello Video 8 Enjoy ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted January 12, 2014 Author Share Posted January 12, 2014 Hello Video 9 Enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trusselo 220 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 so what are the advantages of this raid software over others? Is there a reason that you were dead-set on using a raid setup, that has obviously fallen behind on supporting their software and website? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted January 12, 2014 Author Share Posted January 12, 2014 (edited) so what are the advantages of this raid software over others? Is there a reason that you were dead-set on using a raid setup, that has obviously fallen behind on supporting their software and website? Hello Tusselo, so what are the advantages of this raid software over others? Answer: FlexRAID Software solutions is one of it kind , the code is different then any i seen by far that even ebr one of the most genius programmer/devloper in MB3 uses it. The solutions is divided into few software's 1- Parity Protection : on a separate drive 2- Hard drives Pool 3- Parity + Pool ( Raid F) 4- transparent raid (tRaid) 5- Some other software + Legacy By Far everyone like Raid F at this moment because 1- It make one large Pool of all Hard drives 2- Provide Parity 3- on Click network shares files with all permissions setup properly 4- ect transparent raid (tRaid) is very new base on NZF , i did not look into NZF and what it stand for but in real time it will calcualte your parity and update your save drive and same time sync all of your data and if one drive died then you can reubit it on fly and still have your other drives and data available Is there a reason that you were dead-set on using a raid setup, that has obviously fallen behind on supporting their software and website? Answer: that what i thought 2 months ago and i was mad and angry but after i start using it and ask questions here and there and did research now i change my mind. The guys at flexraid are good and very helpful but it takes them long time to respond , i guess MB3 Fourm and avs fourm kinds made us all feel like if we post a questions we will get answer in few seconds and we cant wait anymore. Yes they are behind in support and upgrading their site but they are small business and small orations so it is ok to wait on answers for some time. My mini series video will help everybody to install and configure tRaid and for Raid F there are so many HOWTO so setup and config is not an issue. So far flexraid guys renewed my trial license for both Raid F and Raid t 3 times with no question ask , they are small and slow but nice Is there a reason that you were dead-set on using a raid setup It work for my needs Pool , Parity , Network share folders , just work for me , i have hard time to deiced on which one to buy or buy both and trust it does work You will run into challanges but in world of computers who does not run into issues So here is a video i made for Raid F in action so you can compare both F and T Hope this help Thanks Edited February 4, 2014 by Airbender 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share Posted January 14, 2014 Hi here is video number 10 This is final video Hope you guys enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share Posted January 14, 2014 Hello So if anyone wants to access the transparent disks along with the storage pool they going to need to disable caching on the storage pool (by editing the RAID options). Here is the video show howto: Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share Posted January 14, 2014 Hello Rest of tRaid is all minor things once anyone go as far 11 Videos then they will be good to go and figure out rest by visiting this wiki page http://wiki.flexraid.com/2013/06/27/installing-the-transparent-raid-host-package/ Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 Hello Just an update , I am running tRaid on my system now with all my data , the Parity is building at 3 % so it might take few days before i can see it let see how it goes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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