Looking to create EXTREMELY large drivepool. Limits?

[siliconautomaton]

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?

[Ryo]

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

 

[Christopher (Drashna)]

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. 

[siliconautomaton]

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?

[Christopher (Drashna)]

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.