[3 Drives with Redudancy?]

6 hours ago, Umfriend said:

1. Install DrivePool (DP)
2. In the DP GUI, add the three 10TB HDDs to a new Pool (I would use the letter P for that one)
It is important to realise that existing data on the HDDs will NOT be affected but they will also NOT be part of the Pool. If you want to move those files to the Pool, you could do this: http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q4142489
3. Now set duplication to x2
4. Let DP do its magic.

Be aware though that DP does not use parity. It is a file based solution that simply ensures that you have a number of duplicates where each duplicate is stored on a different physical device. As a result, 3x10TB will allow for 15TB net storage "only" with x2 duplication.

Awesome thanks so much!

That answers all of my questions.

Shame about the Parity though. I guess it will duplicate the files offpeak overnight etc

[3 Drives with Redudancy?]

Hi Guys,

So recently one of my 6Tb drives in my pool died. I had 2 x 6Tb drives and lost half my data.

So i have now installed 3 x 10Tb drives in my NAS(HP Gen 8). I was originally looking at raid 5 . so 2 x 10TB + 1 drive for parity.

But i was suggested to use Drivepool to do this. How exactly would i set this up so i have drive failure redundancy?

My Setup is as below

 

3 x 10TB WD Red

1 x 500GB SSD Boot drive

16GB RAM

 

[Set size of pool]

Well, we definitely support multiple pools.

The caveat is that each "disk" (well, volume/partition) can only be added to a single pool at a time.

 

As for setting the size, the term you're looking for is "thin provisioned", and no, we don't support that. 

The pool size is set by the size of disks added to the pool (regardless of the used/free size).  And changing that would require a significant rewrite to the code. Additionally, thin provisioning is something that is better for block based solutions, given the differences on how they work. 

 

You *could*, however, use StableBit CloudDrive to do this. The downside is that you wouldn't be able to duplicate only specific folders. It would be "all or nothing" in terms of duplication.

Hi,

Thanks for your quick reply!

 

Yeah i was thinking perhaps i can keep the 1 large pool and have my seperate drives as folders and as i increase space i just add another drive to the pool expanding it.

 

Can you see any downsides to this option?

[Set size of pool]

Hi Guys,

Really cool product i just installed it.

Just curious is it possible to set the size of the pool and have multiple drive pools?

 

I.e i have a 6TB HDD but i only want to create a 3TB pool and perhaps expand later or create a new one.

 

Thanks!