Basic question on HDD placement

[GlenR]

I know this is probably a really basic question, and I think I know the answer, but just to confirm...

 

Does it matter if you rearrange the SATA ports a pool are plugged in to? For example, if you remove the drives and reinstall them, say to move to a new case, does each drive have to plug back in the same SATA port, or can they just plug in anywhere and DrivePool recognise where everything is?

 

I'm guessing that where the disks are plugged in doesn't matter, but I just want to confirm.

 

Thanks

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Absolutely no issues with doing so. 

 

We store information about the pool on the drive itself, and that's what the software looks for. So (baring weird chipsets), you could move the drive to an USB enclosure, and you'd still be fine.

[GlenR]

Thanks for that. I thought that would be the case, but it doesn't hurt to confirm.

 

Just migrating from WHS V1 to a Win10 box using Drivepool. Taking the opportunity to reorganise my drives.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Well, better to double check, sometimes.

 

And if you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask.

[Ryo]

hey hope this isnt wrong to ask here.. im loading my gaming pc and have 2 ssd and a 3TB wd red soon to be a 2nd 3TB and was debating creating a pool for the steam/origen game installs.. and my ? is can I use my 2nd ssd to boost gaming performance with the pool with the ssd optimizer plugin? and how should I go about setting this up? thank to everyone for any assistance...

[Christopher (Drashna)]

hey hope this isnt wrong to ask here.. im loading my gaming pc and have 2 ssd and a 3TB wd red soon to be a 2nd 3TB and was debating creating a pool for the steam/origen game installs.. and my ? is can I use my 2nd ssd to boost gaming performance with the pool with the ssd optimizer plugin? and how should I go about setting this up? thank to everyone for any assistance...

 

 

Absolutely.  

 

However, The SSD Optimizer attempts to move data off of the SSDs during any balancing pass, so that may not be idea. 

 

However, you could use the File Placement rules here, to ensure the files end up on the SSD.