File balancing

[alwi27]

Hi

 

I have a question. When reading "copying" files from a diskpool that has 2x mirror file copy and striping active. Then the disk will act as a raid 0 and read from both disks and give greater speed results. That awsome but my question is if there is an alternative to that when copying to the disk pool?

 

For example

 

I have a diskpool with 2x balancing. I have 4 files 1GB in size per file. Say file1, file2 etc.

Is it possible for Drivepool to copy two of the files to one disk and the rest to another disk to speed up the process. It will then balance the files between disks.

 

So the base question is can drivepool act as a RAID 0 when copying to as it does when copying from.

 

I know it´s not a raid controller but the concept is the same.

 

Best regards

Alex

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Yes and no.  

 

Specifically, StableBit DrivePool has absolutely no problem with this. However, this is ENTIRELY up to the client that you're using to copy the files.

 

Utilities such as robocopy/richcopy support multi threaded copies.  This feature will accomplish what you want, where each thread handles a file copy. 

 

But doing a drag and drop operation... Windows Explorer doesn't support this, and copies the files sequentially. So there isn't anything that we can do here to "fix" this. Other than adding a custom copy handler (like TeraCopy does).