I'm a soon to be user trying to migrate from my aged WHS v1 box and was thinking of using drivepool. The simplicity appeals very much to me but I have a few questions I was hoping someone could shed light on...
1) My NAS is 95% filled with large video files ranging from 1 GB up to 15-20 GB. I have LOTS of these. how does drivepool handle duplication and balancing of many large files? especially when many of them are continually opened and read (ie. torrent seeds)?
2) If I store a VM disk image on a duplicated drive pool , I have the option of splitting up the file into 2GB chunks. Does drivepool handle a single large 50GB file better or will it handle 25 2GB files easier? Will the entire file have to get re-duplicated if a small part of it changes or is drivepool smart enough to only write the part of the files that change?
3) What's your opinion on requiring ECC memory in a home NAS solution? Does drivepool use a lot of memory and benefit from ECC memory? What is the expected memory load on a 7TB drive pool with duplication?
4) How does drivepool handle corrupted files? If a drive goes south and files become unreadable or corrupted, how does drivepool prevent that corrupted file from propogating and overwriting the good version?
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mr_yellow
Hi Guys,
I'm a soon to be user trying to migrate from my aged WHS v1 box and was thinking of using drivepool. The simplicity appeals very much to me but I have a few questions I was hoping someone could shed light on...
1) My NAS is 95% filled with large video files ranging from 1 GB up to 15-20 GB. I have LOTS of these. how does drivepool handle duplication and balancing of many large files? especially when many of them are continually opened and read (ie. torrent seeds)?
2) If I store a VM disk image on a duplicated drive pool , I have the option of splitting up the file into 2GB chunks. Does drivepool handle a single large 50GB file better or will it handle 25 2GB files easier? Will the entire file have to get re-duplicated if a small part of it changes or is drivepool smart enough to only write the part of the files that change?
3) What's your opinion on requiring ECC memory in a home NAS solution? Does drivepool use a lot of memory and benefit from ECC memory? What is the expected memory load on a 7TB drive pool with duplication?
4) How does drivepool handle corrupted files? If a drive goes south and files become unreadable or corrupted, how does drivepool prevent that corrupted file from propogating and overwriting the good version?
Thanks everyone!
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