Does it matter if backing up many small files?

[andy_d]

I'd like to backup my emulation folder since it took a bit of time to setup and would not want to deal with setting it up again if I were to have hard drive failure.  Does it matter if I'm backing up a ton of small files into the pool?  It's something like 200gb but it's actually over 40,000 files.

[Spider99]

have 600k of small files @ ~300gb on my drive pool in one "Library" no issue as dp emulates an ntfs volume - its only restricted by ntfs limits

[andy_d]

have 600k of small files @ ~300gb on my drive pool in one "Library" no issue as dp emulates an ntfs volume - its only restricted by ntfs limits

 

ok thank you for confirming!

[Christopher (Drashna)]

(marked post as answer). 

 

 

And yeah, the only limit is NTFS' limit.  

 

Which is to say, there is no real limit, effectively.