tby

I bought a license today on this promise. I hope it's soon

Yes, I have hundreds of TBs of storage on drives no smaller than 10TB that I'd like to migrate from DrivePool to unraid. Particularly because an 'unraid array' is like a DrivePool with optional real-time parity. Also hopefully it would allow my drives to spin down when idle, which isn't happening with DrivePool so my storage is consuming ~3.8A at all times when it could be under 1A nearly all the time. IMO most people who want ZFS missed that it was designed for Enterprises who upgrade capacity by replacing the whole thing or adding completely populated shelves. I think BTRFS is better suited for most use cases where throughput is a priority but it still comes with a warning not to use its RAID5/6 implementation for data you're not prepared to lose. I know some commercial NAS layer lvm/mdadm over BTRFS for RAID but I haven't seen that on anything I can run on my own hardware, and DIY-ing that is deeper into the weeds than I want to go. Plus, again, I'd like most of my disks to be spun down most of the time, which takes any sort of traditional striped RAID off the table. So, yes, I really need more than 30 drives. Preferably not all in a single 'unraid array' but I'd take that if that was what was on offer.

This limitation of one 'array' of up to 28 storage + 2 parity drives has been the thing keeping me from buying into unraid. With my last additions I'm at 30 drives in two volumes on DrivePool, with maybe six months before I need to grow it again.