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What are your requirements? Especially how resilient should that RAID be against drive outage? How many drives may fail before the critical one?
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What are your requirements? Especially how resilient should that RAID be against drive outage? How many drives may fail before the critical one?

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That is just a general question about whether keeping all drives in a pool or separate them into two pools. Which one is better?
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That is just a general question about whether keeping all drives in a pool or separate them into two pools. Which one is better?

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What's the intended purpose for the storage?<br />
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I suggest a RAID 6 setup running with a RAID controller with flash-backed cache as opposed to Storage Spaces software driven resilience.<br />
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A SATA drive will yield about 250 IOPS and about 150MiB/Second in performance in a RAID setting. Not so much in Storage Spaces unless set up with a three-way mirror but that means only 33% of storage available and then column counts versus drive counts need to become a consideration.<br />
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Long story short: Run with RAID.
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What's the intended purpose for the storage?

I suggest a RAID 6 setup running with a RAID controller with flash-backed cache as opposed to Storage Spaces software driven resilience.

A SATA drive will yield about 250 IOPS and about 150MiB/Second in performance in a RAID setting. Not so much in Storage Spaces unless set up with a three-way mirror but that means only 33% of storage available and then column counts versus drive counts need to become a consideration.

Long story short: Run with RAID.

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I have 8 x 4TB SATA drives (hot swappable) and want to configure Storage Spaces for them but have been wondering if I should create two pools and each has 4 x 4TB with mirror or just one pool with 8 x 4TB with mirror. What is your suggestion?
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I have 8 x 4TB SATA drives (hot swappable) and want to configure Storage Spaces for them but have been wondering if I should create two pools and each has 4 x 4TB with mirror or just one pool with 8 x 4TB with mirror. What is your suggestion?

Storage Spaces suggestion - better with one big pool or two small pools?

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