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  1. Thank you, Christopher! The 'shotgun' effect is exactly what I was trying to describe. Again, it's amazing the level of support and "don't feel like you're looking down" on people that you all provide here. On the FreeNAS forums and some other places, it's really very hostile. That alone gives you a huge leg-up, plus having a really polished product. I'll be ordering the combo-pack tomorrow! Mike
  2. Hi all, I just installed DP on my purpose-built NAS last night and have a couple questions.The NAS is running with drive level duplication enabled on 8.1 64-bit using the on-board Intel SATA controllers. I understand that if I am running two drives, files exist on both drives, so if one drive fails, I know that I need to copy everything from the remaining drive and I 'rescue' 100% of my files. However, i'm running 4 drives in the pool (all exactly the same size/brand/model), which is leaving me wondering what I would do in the above case of a drive failing? I'm having a hard time explaining it, but imagine if I dump 500 files on the DP virtual disk (again, apologies if I don't yet have the terminology correct). How are they distributed among the four drives? How would I be sure to recover 100% of my files if a single drive were to fail? I'm guessing that the data for the entire pool is still visible (read-only) so could back that up, but it's the whole pool rather than just the 'vulnerable' files. Or, is it really something I'm over-thinking and once I 'remove' the drive from the pool, DP would re-balance everything among the remaining three drives so I'd still have 100% of my files, with redundancy, again? I'm also guessing I could plop a replacement drive into the pool and it would rebuild? I'm coming from a many year RAID background, so adjusting to the concepts of duplicating at the file level is just tripping me up a bit. Thanks in advance for the help -- as I've been looking around these forums, I've been astounded at the friendly, knowledgeable support that is provided - kudos! Mike
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