The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TW-Twisti on 2025-02-01 13:09:06.

I’ve been using Storage Spaces and while I have no major complaints, I always felt unsettled by how little it seems to be used and by how rare resources seem to be when anything goes wrong. I would feel considerably more at ease with a Linux based solution, which addmittedly I might only prefer due to more familiarity.

That being said, I am also looking for a feature SS don’t support; namely the functionality of MergerFS to simply put whole files on single disks. My use case are primarily media files which I can get back with some effort, so I don’t want to waste the space on data mirroring, but I also wouldn’t want one out of five drives failing mean a 100% loss rate due to bits of files being spread.

I was thinking I could detach the drives from Windows management and hand them over to WSL2, where I could then set up MergerFS/ZFS/Whatever to my liking, and access the file systems via \wsl$ or whatever that notiation was. Would that be reasonable (for media files, so performance is less of a concern) ? Anyone try anything like that ?