I currently have an HP micro server gen 8 with Xpenology with hybrid raid, which works fairly well, but I’m 2 major versions behind. I’m quite happy with it, but I-d like to have an easier upgrade process, and more options. My main use is NAS and a couple of apps. I’d like to have more flexibility, to easily have an arr suite, etc.

Considerdering the hassle of safely upgrading xpenology because of the hybrid raid (4+4+2+2 Gb HDDs) I-d like a setup which I can easily upgrade and modify.

What are my options here? What RAID options are there that easily and efficiently these these disks?

I don-t have the spare money right now to replace the 2Gb disks. Planned in the future

  • mbirthEnglish
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    2 days ago

    SHR is just bog-standard Linux mdraid and LVM. This should be mountable from almost any Linux. So, you could switch without reformatting.

    You should be able to install e.g. OpenMediaVault to an extra disk (or USB drive) and it should detect your SHR (According to this).

    OMV supports Docker containers so installing additional software should be easy.