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Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Best Practices Guide

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Storage pools

When setting up pools, ensure that the physical disks are spread evenly across all the enclosures by using multiple pools, rather than assigning a pool to one enclosure.

For example, if you have two Dell Storage MD1420 enclosures full of HDDs and SSDs. Each enclosure has 20 HDDs and four SSDs installed. 40 HDDs and eight SSDs are available for configuring in the pool. In this example, you require a minimum of two pools. Pool1 contains two SSDs and 10 HDDs from the first MD1420 and two SSDs and 10 HDDs from the second MD1420. Pool2 contains the remaining disks.
Figure 1. Distribution of physical disks across pools

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