I just got my first 8TB drive and since I am not sure how it will hold up and the supposed write penalty I thought why not only use it for duplicated data. My reasoning was duplication is written once, maybe twice in case something changes and thats it. So this would be optimal for this type of drive. Also if it dies prematurely, I only loose duplicated data.
So I ticked the box "duplicated" on the 8TB drive and all others I only ticked the "unduplicated" boxes. So far so good, but I am also seeing duplicated data on other drives (light blu on the bars). Is this normal or not? I was expecting to only see duplicated data appear on the 8TB drive. Prior to adding this drive I had no duplication set.
Does this choice of limiting the duplication data to the 8TB drive make sense? Or am I better of to reset the file placement plug-in to its defaults and forget about it?
File corruption
What happens to a duplicated file when it becomes corrupt? For example, I copy a file to drivepool (100% OK). I let it duplicate, also fine. Now for some reason one of those files becomes corrupt. Will drivepool correct this by replacing the corrupt version with the second still OK version or worse case will it replace the OK version with the corrupt one, or a totally different scenario?
Just curious how this works and wondering if duplication not only safeguards against data loss, but also against degradation.
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I just got my first 8TB drive and since I am not sure how it will hold up and the supposed write penalty I thought why not only use it for duplicated data. My reasoning was duplication is written once, maybe twice in case something changes and thats it. So this would be optimal for this type of drive. Also if it dies prematurely, I only loose duplicated data.
So I ticked the box "duplicated" on the 8TB drive and all others I only ticked the "unduplicated" boxes. So far so good, but I am also seeing duplicated data on other drives (light blu on the bars). Is this normal or not? I was expecting to only see duplicated data appear on the 8TB drive. Prior to adding this drive I had no duplication set.
Does this choice of limiting the duplication data to the 8TB drive make sense? Or am I better of to reset the file placement plug-in to its defaults and forget about it?
File corruption
What happens to a duplicated file when it becomes corrupt? For example, I copy a file to drivepool (100% OK). I let it duplicate, also fine. Now for some reason one of those files becomes corrupt. Will drivepool correct this by replacing the corrupt version with the second still OK version or worse case will it replace the OK version with the corrupt one, or a totally different scenario?
Just curious how this works and wondering if duplication not only safeguards against data loss, but also against degradation.
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