Someone on overclock.net pointed me this direction as i was looking for an alternative to the Windows 10 storage pools and i had a few questions so i figured i would ask here.
Right now my pool is backing up because I made the mistake of creating it with a 4KB cluster size so I hit the 16TB limit but I figured since I had to re-create the pool I would investigate other options.
1. I don't like that the Win10 "simple" pool is basically striping my data. I don't want to deal with having to rebuild the entire pool if one drive fails, from what I read SBDP would take care of that issue correct? (I would only lose the data on the actual drive that failed)
2. That said, if I do have a drive failure will the software let me know what data I have lost? I will have a 1:1 backup available but I don't want to have to dig through everything trying to figure out what is missing,
3. With regards to the backup, I am not sure how to best handle that. It will be equal to my main pool size wise but most of the drives will be slower than what is in the main pool so I didn't think mirroring them would be good as I don't want the performance of my slower drives impacting my main drives.
This will be for a plex server that I am running and I estimate about 30TB in the main pool and then another 30TB in the backup.
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Blindsay
Hi all,
Someone on overclock.net pointed me this direction as i was looking for an alternative to the Windows 10 storage pools and i had a few questions so i figured i would ask here.
Right now my pool is backing up because I made the mistake of creating it with a 4KB cluster size so I hit the 16TB limit but I figured since I had to re-create the pool I would investigate other options.
1. I don't like that the Win10 "simple" pool is basically striping my data. I don't want to deal with having to rebuild the entire pool if one drive fails, from what I read SBDP would take care of that issue correct? (I would only lose the data on the actual drive that failed)
2. That said, if I do have a drive failure will the software let me know what data I have lost? I will have a 1:1 backup available but I don't want to have to dig through everything trying to figure out what is missing,
3. With regards to the backup, I am not sure how to best handle that. It will be equal to my main pool size wise but most of the drives will be slower than what is in the main pool so I didn't think mirroring them would be good as I don't want the performance of my slower drives impacting my main drives.
This will be for a plex server that I am running and I estimate about 30TB in the main pool and then another 30TB in the backup.
Let me know if you need any more info.
Thank you
-Bill
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