[Best organization of drives]

3 hours ago, Umfriend said:

I would just consider to split the 2x2 Pools so that each Pool has one drive on each adapter and perhaps split the 1x5 Pool into two and use Hierarchical Pools for duplication and have each underlying Pools' drives on seperate adapters. Why? Should one adapter fail then you can still access all files without having to connect all HDDs to the other adapter. Sure, you will do so anyway but at least you can now read before you do that.

Thanks, i'll do that.

Just for information, where in the balancing options can i do that (hierarchical pools usage) : i am in french so not easy to find.

Anyway this will require a pool reorganization which might take some time as the 5 drive pool is made of 2x10TB + 3x8TB and is 80% full (a new 10TB drive is on order)

[Best organization of drives]

Hello team,

I have a ws2016 machine with a gigabyte mobo with 6 sata ports and 2 pcie adaptec 6805 cards (8 port) full of drives.

In total I have 19 drives in my machine.

It includes 3 pools: 2 of 2 drives and one of 5 drives, all have duplication enabled.

 

I was wondering what is the best in terms of performance ? Should drives from a same pool be placed on the same controller or on different controllers ?

What would the pros and cons be ?