Drive sizes

[Richard Ayotte]

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.

[Shane]

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.

[Richard Ayotte]

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.

[Shane]

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.

[Richard Ayotte]

Thanks a lot for your help, it will greatly guide me to build my pool.