I just installed a new 8TB drive and my parity drive is 8TB. I am being warned the new drive is a few MB larger than the parity drive. I use DrivePool so I limit my data drives to 90% of total. Does this mean I should be okay ? If so could I even push it up to 95% and still be okay because the data on it is less than the parity drive ? Or does it matter even if the drive itself is larger even if data stored isn't ?
Thanks.
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I just installed a new 8TB drive and my parity drive is 8TB. I am being warned the new drive is a few MB larger than the parity drive. I use DrivePool so I limit my data drives to 90% of total. Does this mean I should be okay ? If so could I even push it up to 95% and still be okay because the data on it is less than the parity drive ? Or does it matter even if the drive itself is larger even if data stored isn't ?
Thanks.
If the data sizes per disk are all less than the size of the parity disk, you're fine