Richard Ayotte Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Hi, Is it important to have drives of same storage capacity to build a pool? What happens if one drive is 1 TB, two are 2 TB and another of 5TB? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Shane Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 DrivePool doesn't need drives of the same capacity (e.g. one of my pools is three 12 TB, a 4 TB and a 3 TB). It will normally put new files on whatever drive has the most free space at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Richard Ayotte Posted April 18 Author Share Posted April 18 Thanks for the info and I have another question: does it matter if drives don't rotate at the same speed? Like 7200 vs 5400. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Shane Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 The only thing a slower drive will affect is how long it takes for DrivePoool to access it. Otherwise no, you can have drives of different speeds in the same pool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Richard Ayotte Posted April 19 Author Share Posted April 19 Thanks a lot for your help, it will greatly guide me to build my pool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Richard Ayotte
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Is it important to have drives of same storage capacity to build a pool? What happens if one drive is 1 TB, two are 2 TB and another of 5TB?
Thanks.
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