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Thank you Umfriend. I actually do have everything duplicated, but I believe your answer explains either scenario. If there is no difference in performance, and the larger pool offering better chance of success if scanner finds issue, I'll stick to what I'm doing with the one large pool. Thank you again! David

This question has probably been answered, but I can't seem to word it correctly to find in the forum. I have used DrivePool & Scanner for a little over a year, but basically just left them "as is" and never messed with it. Now though, my drives are filling & I have been playing with it. I have 8 external hard drives, ranging in size from 2-4Tb. Currently I have them all in one pool of "Family Media" which consists of "Music", "Movies", "TV Shows", "Pictures", etc. So, my question is, would it be better to keep it like it is, in one large pool, or to have multiple smaller pools, say for example: Drives 1/2 - Movies Pool, Drives 3/4, TV Shows Pool, etc. Or, am I "overthinking" everything and it will make no difference. To be honest, I'm not sure what I am wanting to accomplish other than "lightning fast, immediate opening of 25 files at once and no impact on system resources". Of course, that's a joke, but really, is there any benefit in the set up of multiple small pools, one large pool or maybe even sub-pools of a large pool? Thank you, David

Yep. I have the same thing. When I go to disk management, it shows the volume as healthy. The volume it refers to is on my C: drive, and is NTFS, OEM Partition.