SSD Plugin question

[xtremecool]

I have a couple of media pools that I'd like to add an SSD to, as a landing disk when copying to the pool.

 

I have a spare 480GB SSD available and was wondering if I could split the disk into two 240GB partitions and add a 240GB partition to each of the media pools.

 

Will this work, and if it does can you think of any issues I may encounter, or do I need a SSD for each pool I want to add a landing disk to?

 

The media pools have no duplication running, as they are protected by CrashPlan backing up to a third, much larger, backup pool.

 

 

J

 

 

[Christopher (Drashna)]

You're using multiple pools, correct?

If so, then yes, that should absolutely work.

 

 

And since you're not using duplication, no complications from that.  So, full speed ahead then.

[xtremecool]

Thanks for the very quick response.

 

Yes I'm running multiple pools. 

 

1 is for photos and music, and has duplication on it, but I don't want/need an SSD adding to this pool.

 

2 pools hold TV & Movies, which I do want to add an SSD to, to speed up copying of files to the pool from the network, or from other local SSDs on the server.

 

The 4th pool is a big pool of 8TB disks, which CrashPlan backs up the 3 other pools to.

 

Looks like one of tomorrow's jobs is to find space in the server, to install the SSD into, and then reconfigure DrivePool to use the new partitions.

 

 

J

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Sounds like you're good to go then.