siliconautomaton Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 So, looking to create a drivepool volume with hundreds of 18TB disks in JBOD. Ignoring the cost, what are the limits of what I can make? My current planned system would have me at 15PB (not TB) of total available storage, can a pool be that large? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Ryo Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 i dont see why Not.. i like that plan and im currently designing a rebuild of my home server thats currently 12 TB but will be upgraded to a hopeful total of 18TB x 24 and hopefully beyond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 Windows might have some issues, as may your power company. Aside from that, StableBit DrivePool shouldn't. But you may want to mount the drives to folders, rather than using drive letters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 siliconautomaton Posted August 2 Author Share Posted August 2 I tend to add drives to the pool, then remove their drive letters. Drives themselves are only accessible as an invisible part of the pool. Are you saying I need to have them mounted somewhere when pools get larger? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 There is no theortical limit for the size of the pool, barring factors such as the controller you're using, OS support for the drives, your wallet size, cost of electricity. As long as the drives show up in the OS, then you should be able to pool them. And StableBit DrivePool doesn't use the drive letters, so you can remove those, if you want. We recommend mounting them to drive paths, to help keep things sane, and accessible. https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q4822624 however, if you just want to remove the drive letters, be warned that Windows can have issues with volumes that aren't mounted. There is a simple fix for that, if you do run into it: https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_F3540 Personally, I'm running 20+ drives in a pool that is 150~ TBs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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So, looking to create a drivepool volume with hundreds of 18TB disks in JBOD.
Ignoring the cost, what are the limits of what I can make? My current planned system would have me at 15PB (not TB) of total available storage, can a pool be that large?
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