Hello,
I moved most of my hard drives from my main PC to my Storage / HTPC server.
Now currently I am running a
- Windows Raid 1 (duplication) two 3 TB drives (personal Media up to 2011)
- 1 Single 3 TB harddrive (personal other files)
- 1 single 2 TB files which seems to be slowly failing (personal Media 2012+)
- adding two new 3 TB drives next week
all of those are backed up to the cloud with crashplan. Crashplan is re-synchronizing right now.
I heard much good about drivepool. BUT I am really confused why I hardly cant find any YOUtube videos like reviews or hands one videos (is it not that popular)
I just installed a trial and what i read was that it will always write data on the harddrive that is the least full.
Now I always like a backdoor. And it seems drivepool gives you that backdoor. BUT and that seems to be a BIG BUT...
files might be randomly on different harddrives...!!! With 5TB of Photos (lets say 200.000 photos) I see a NIGHTMARE ever wanting to change back....!
I DO like the idea that drivepool could duplicate everything, but I am really scared off making a HUGH Mess!!!
Why do I want to use drivepool... for example i like to have all Media in one drive... since i have more than 3 TB data i cannot physically store it in only one HD.
Also currently my Raid1 cant be used from drivepool. I would have to "unraid" and go from there... (but how)
any thoughts would really be appreciated!!!
Let say I want to Migrate... what would be the best way to do so?
Alex