I'm curious how DP manages the duplication writes to 2 disks in a pool. For example, if I had an SSD and a HDD in a pool does DP write a file to both and wait for both to finish to move on. Or does it have separate queues where the SSD will be done 'first' while the HDD is still writing? In either case I expect DP to report the slowest write time as the Windows progress bar/time/done.
This also would apply with an SMR drive paired with a CMR drive.
To be clear I'm not expecting the SSD to make any writes to DP faster just curious if any part of a faster disk paired with a slower disk is taken advantage of at all.
Reciprocally, I understand DP uses both drives for read which in theory could speed up an SMR drive and slow down an SSD. In a very ideal world only the SSD would be used to read. Though I believe this isn't possible to assign a primary 'read' drive in DP. Is that correct?
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I'm curious how DP manages the duplication writes to 2 disks in a pool. For example, if I had an SSD and a HDD in a pool does DP write a file to both and wait for both to finish to move on. Or does it have separate queues where the SSD will be done 'first' while the HDD is still writing? In either case I expect DP to report the slowest write time as the Windows progress bar/time/done.
This also would apply with an SMR drive paired with a CMR drive.
To be clear I'm not expecting the SSD to make any writes to DP faster just curious if any part of a faster disk paired with a slower disk is taken advantage of at all.
Reciprocally, I understand DP uses both drives for read which in theory could speed up an SMR drive and slow down an SSD. In a very ideal world only the SSD would be used to read. Though I believe this isn't possible to assign a primary 'read' drive in DP. Is that correct?
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