Let me preface by saying that I'm just using the trail right now, but following my rebuild (this week), and after my new drives arrive, I look forward to purchasing the license. So far, I'm really liking DrivePool and Scanner. Gonna get the bundle for sure!!
OK, so, I have a LOT of SSD's that I've acquired over time. Most were given to me second-hand, but all look good in SMART, and have all tested great. Now looking to do a complex pool.
I have a Dell PERC h310 HBA that bought off ebay, which will facilitate eight SSD's as follows:
6x Plextor M6S in RAID10 as the OS volume.
2x Samsung 840 EVO RAID0 as a type of "landing disk".
Intel Z77: 4x HGST NAS 6TB HDD in RAID5 on Intel Z77
AsMedia ASM1061: (for Misc. 3Gbps SSD's and two 1TB hybrid drives)
My ultimate goal is to use the massive RAID5 volume to store just about everything. Movies, Recorded TV, Music, Documents, Pictures, etc. since it's independently redundant. (I understand on-board RAID5 isn't the most desirable, but it's the only disks on this controller, so I assume it should be fine.) I want to use the EVO's on the PERC as the "landing disk" to maximise writes to the RAID5 volume, and any older 3Gbps SSD's I would like to use to accelerate specific directories on the RAID5 volume. For example, I have a 128GB 3Gbps SSD, and this could be used to accelerate my Skydrive volume; then replace it with something bigger when time/money permits.
Now, one thing I would LOVE to do, would be to only have two volumes (drive labels) visible in Explorer; just to make it easy for my wife. That is to say that I just want to see the OS volume, and the Drive Pool volume. Is this possible with DrivePool, given my design?
Also, the new 6TB drives are replacing a set of 3TB drives. I know that DrivePool allows you to add populated drives, but would it be best practice to create the pool first, using empty disks, then copy my data over from the old 3TB dsks?
Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions anyone could provide. I'll try to answer any questions if more information is needed.
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Let me preface by saying that I'm just using the trail right now, but following my rebuild (this week), and after my new drives arrive, I look forward to purchasing the license. So far, I'm really liking DrivePool and Scanner. Gonna get the bundle for sure!!
OK, so, I have a LOT of SSD's that I've acquired over time. Most were given to me second-hand, but all look good in SMART, and have all tested great. Now looking to do a complex pool.
I have a Dell PERC h310 HBA that bought off ebay, which will facilitate eight SSD's as follows:
6x Plextor M6S in RAID10 as the OS volume.
2x Samsung 840 EVO RAID0 as a type of "landing disk".
Motherboard (ASRock Fatal1ty Z77 Professional-M) controllers are:
Intel Z77: 4x HGST NAS 6TB HDD in RAID5 on Intel Z77
AsMedia ASM1061: (for Misc. 3Gbps SSD's and two 1TB hybrid drives)
My ultimate goal is to use the massive RAID5 volume to store just about everything. Movies, Recorded TV, Music, Documents, Pictures, etc. since it's independently redundant. (I understand on-board RAID5 isn't the most desirable, but it's the only disks on this controller, so I assume it should be fine.) I want to use the EVO's on the PERC as the "landing disk" to maximise writes to the RAID5 volume, and any older 3Gbps SSD's I would like to use to accelerate specific directories on the RAID5 volume. For example, I have a 128GB 3Gbps SSD, and this could be used to accelerate my Skydrive volume; then replace it with something bigger when time/money permits.
Now, one thing I would LOVE to do, would be to only have two volumes (drive labels) visible in Explorer; just to make it easy for my wife. That is to say that I just want to see the OS volume, and the Drive Pool volume. Is this possible with DrivePool, given my design?
Also, the new 6TB drives are replacing a set of 3TB drives. I know that DrivePool allows you to add populated drives, but would it be best practice to create the pool first, using empty disks, then copy my data over from the old 3TB dsks?
Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions anyone could provide. I'll try to answer any questions if more information is needed.
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