Drive Bender, Stable bit or Flexraid for pooling drives?

[Kneedragger]

Hello,
I'm in the process of piecing my new media server together and need some opinions. I will be using Windows 7 and I can't really make up my mind on FlexRAID, Stable bit or Drive Bender for drive pooling.

For just pooling drives does one have more features than the other? I'm looking for any raid or parity for redundancy.

Thanks

 

[Kneedragger]

Anyone?

 

[DaveJ]

I've had Stablebit Drivepool running on a WHS 2011 box for about 8 months and it's been rock solid. I don't have any experience with FlexRAID or Drive Bender but I've read that Drive Bender seems to be more complicated to manage than Drivepool. The newest versions of Drivepool also have integration with Stablebit Scanner, which is nice.

 

[monkey333]

Flexraid, is whoah, steep learning curve, but hopefully it'll do what I'm asking. Upcoming for them is nzfs, which will extend some of its capabilities.

 

[Kneedragger]

Thanks for the info.

 

[DooKey]

I run Stablebit on my 2012 Essentials server and it runs without issue. Prior to that I ran it on my WHS 2011 server with equally good results. Good product with good developer support.

 

[heymrdj]

Ive been running Drive Bender on WHS 2011 for a little over a year now with no issues at all. The software can be a little complicated. It handles 12TB of drives of various sizes, 8TB total data in use. It is processor intensive and a high speed array (mine mounts VMs as well) should have decent process and ram behind it (My athlon X2 5600+ was crushed by it). It was also easy to move to a new server, as you just have to install drive bender on your new system, scan the drives, and boom your pool is back up and running again, literally minutes.