Great. Thank you. That actually makes sense. My misunderstanding was that the pool contained the vdevs, somewhat akin to a directory within a directory. Your explanation makes way more sense than how I initially understood it.
In the works. You actually just responded to me about it here. Or at least what I’m trying to work on. My backup only has room for 1 HDD - which is currently a 14GB HDD.
That was my guess, but I didn’t quite know why. Not to mention, I wasn’t sure how to set it up to best use the space AND make use of the aforementioned backup.
Got it. That makes sense now. I incorrectly understood how vdevs worked.
Great in theory, but as backups grow in size, my backup box will be too small. I have another box that holds 4 drives, but don’t have drives for it at the moment. How do I best balance that?
Adding to all of this, I bought a 12 bay Supermicro server (with an LSI HBA) that I wanted to transfer the 9 disks into, also providing room for expansion. because of this, I was trying to figure out the best setup.