Does DrivePool allow files to be split over different physical disks?

[o999]

I have 2,122 files of ~100GB each (a total of around 200TB) stored on 16 physical disks of varying sizes. Each disk has up to 70GB free (over 1TB free in total).

If these disks were placed in a pool, would it be possible to utilise this space to store more 100GB files, given that the files would need to be split between physical drives?

For anyone interested, they are Chia plots so each file must be the full 100GB.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,

David.

[Shane]

Hi David,

DrivePool does not split any files across disks. Each file is stored entirely on a disk (or if duplication is enabled, each copy of that file is stored entirely on a separate disk to the others).

You could use CloudDrive on top of DrivePool to take advantage of the former's block-based storage, but note that doing so would give up one of the advantages of DrivePool (that if a drive dies the rest of the pool remains intact); if you did this I would strongly recommend using either DrivePool's duplication (which uses N times as much space to allow N-1 drives to die without losing any data from the pool, though it will be read-only until the dead drive is removed) or hardware RAID5 in arrays of three to five drives each or RAID1 in pairs or similar (which allows one drive per array/pair to die without losing any data and would also allow the pool to remain writable while you replaced the dead drive).