Greyhole Alternatives

Greyhole is described as 'Application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they're connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware' and is an app. There are eight alternatives to Greyhole for Linux, Windows, BSD and FreeBSD. The best Greyhole alternative is Unraid. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try OpenZFS or btrfs. Other great apps like Greyhole are StableBit DrivePool, mergerfs, EON ZFS Storage and Drive Bender.

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  1. Unraid icon

    Unraid

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    Flexible operating system combining storage management with support for mixed drive sizes, Docker containers, virtual machines, hardware and GPU passthrough, browser-based interface, file protocols, scalable expansion, integrated parity, and monitoring features.

    26 Unraid alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    • Unraid is the most popular Linux alternative to Greyhole.

    • Unraid is the most popular commercial alternative to Greyhole.

    • Unraid is Paid and ProprietaryGreyhole is Free and Open Source
    • Unraid is LightweightGreyhole is not according to our users
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    OpenZFS

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    OpenZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris and is now maintained by the OpenZFS community.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
     

    • OpenZFS is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Greyhole.

    • OpenZFS is Free and Open SourceGreyhole is also Free and Open Source
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    btrfs

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    Btrfs is a modern copy on write (CoW) filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features while also focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Unraid

    Flexible operating system combining storage management with support for mixed drive sizes, Docker containers, virtual machines, hardware and GPU passthrough, browser-based interface, file protocols, scalable expansion, integrated...

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    StableBit DrivePool

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    State of the art, file based drive pooling software.

    9 StableBit DrivePool alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • StableBit DrivePool is the most popular Windows alternative to Greyhole.

    • StableBit DrivePool is Paid and ProprietaryGreyhole is Free and Open Source
    • StableBit DrivePool is LightweightGreyhole is not according to our users

  7. mergerfs

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    mergerfs is a union filesystem geared towards simplifing storage and management of files across numerous commodity storage devices. It is similar to mhddfs, unionfs, and aufs.

    6 mergerfs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. EON ZFS Storage icon

    EON ZFS Storage

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    What is EON? Embedded Operating system/Networking is a small operating system, built on Solaris, designed to store any amount of digital data on Intel/AMD (x86) hardware, using the amazing, enterprise class Zettabyte File System.

    Why use EON? Because it offers rock solid, reliab.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Drive Bender

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    Drive Bender for Windows is state of the art, single point storage pool technology for all versions of Microsoft Windows (read more).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. mhddfs

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    The driver combines a several mount points into the single one.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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