mrgeeza
Cadet
- Joined
- Nov 29, 2018
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Hi there
I have an 8 bay, 2u rack mount NAS that I’ve had now for sometime, but not yet kicked myself into gear and set things up.
I’ve had a search round the forum but couldn’t seem to find an answer to my question, probably not using the correct terminology.
For 8 drives is it better to create 2 storage pools of 4 drives rather than one big one? Obviously there will be pros and cons to both, but if you can think of anything important I might have overlooked, I’d be extremely greatful.
Currently my opinion is to have 2 pools with one mirroring the other. In my head I see this being a kind of backup/redundancy if one of the pools fail, understandably a true backup is something on a completely different device and in a completely different place, but for quick recovery could this be a start?
So my question is 1 or 2 pools, mirrored or not? Pros and Cons.
Thank you :)
Toby
I have an 8 bay, 2u rack mount NAS that I’ve had now for sometime, but not yet kicked myself into gear and set things up.
I’ve had a search round the forum but couldn’t seem to find an answer to my question, probably not using the correct terminology.
For 8 drives is it better to create 2 storage pools of 4 drives rather than one big one? Obviously there will be pros and cons to both, but if you can think of anything important I might have overlooked, I’d be extremely greatful.
Currently my opinion is to have 2 pools with one mirroring the other. In my head I see this being a kind of backup/redundancy if one of the pools fail, understandably a true backup is something on a completely different device and in a completely different place, but for quick recovery could this be a start?
So my question is 1 or 2 pools, mirrored or not? Pros and Cons.
Thank you :)
Toby