Hello,
I am thinking of converting my actual home server setup to DrivePool.
My server is actually running Windows server 2012 r2 and has the folowing hardware setup :
- 1 x SSD 256Gb on the motherboard Intel Z77 SATA 3 :
for the system and some app
- 4 x WD RED 4Tb on the motherboard Intels ports Z77 SATA 2 in RAID 10 (which is I think a RAID 0+1) :
for backups comming from 3 home PCs and server system itself, photos and videos comming from 4 Android devices, movie library
- 1 x Toshiba 5Tb on discreet card Marvell 9210 dual port SATA :
for backups of some of previous RAID10 folders
- 2 x WD Green 4Tb that are not used yet.
- 3 x GbE Intel Ethernet l212-T1 NICs teamed into LACP 3Gbits/s plugged into 8 ports Netgear switch GS108T that support LACP and jumbo frame.
I am thinking of breaking my RAID (with a backup before...) in order to use the 4 WD RED (and the others disks too) with DrivePool.
If I am not mistaking, with Drivepool, if I do at least one duplicate, then I would have some kind of mirroring but also would be able to read from 2 disks at the same time. Plz correct me if I am wrong.
So for the read part it should have the same speed as my current RAID 10, or even faster if I do 3x duplicate, isn't it?
Now for the write part, again if my andertanding is correct, the speed should be half of my current RAID write speed.
But if I use a SSD with Drivepool's plugin, then I should have faster write speed than my current RAID, since all datas would be cached on the SSD before being written to the pool?
So if I choose 3x duplicates + SSD caching then everything : read, write, IO would be faster than my current setup.
Please let me know if I am correct, but also if you think I am ok with going from a RAID to DrivePool system.
Thanks for this long reading
