brianw2019

Hi, Been using Drivepool for a couple of years on a few machines and working pretty good. I am builidng a new mini iTX i9 system and want to double check if my plan will be ok. I will be using the system to serve jpgs to a dozen or so viewing laptop at events. Because I want the boot drive to be mirrored I want to use the motherboards' Raid 1 and a pair 500GB nvme SSDs. I will also have a pair 8TB HDDs. Here is what I am planning: 1. Create a Raid1 mirror with the board with the pair of 500GB SSDs. 2. Create a pool and add the RAID1 and the 8TB hard drives 3. Use placement rules to always use the SSDs and manually change the folder placement to the HDDs when that folder is no longer in heavy use (yesterday's folder) or when space is running low on the SSDs (not sure but don't think this can be automated with a plugin). Because I want the data to always be duplicated should I also create a second mirror for the HDDs - this way I can just select 1X file and manually change the placement files when I need space on the fast SSDs and the RAID1 takes care of duplication. So I am using drivepool to help balance the cost between speed & capacity. Questions: 1. If a drive fails from the RAID1 will drivepool continue to operate without issue? I notice if a drive fails in a pool I need to remove it in the panel before normal operation resumes (reading & writing). 2. Are there any negatives to setting the 2 drives as RAID1 then adding to the pool? The alternative is to not set RAID1 and add to pool as 4 drives and set folder to 2X dupe - but will lose the redundant OS boot. 3. Are there any issues adding the boot drive (or boot RAID1) to the pool? Thanks, Brian