Currently I have 2 x 4TB Red hard disks in one drivepool (with 2x duplication on for the entire drive) and another 2 x 4TB Red hard disks in an identical setup. I store video files on one drivepool and music/photo/documents on the other drivepool. I know it's not a great idea but I use the 2x duplication as a 'backup' solution - mainly because I'm not too fussed if I lose everything (particularly important documents are duplicated to my Google Drive).
I'm playing around with CloudDrive and thinking about changing my setup to the following:
4 x 4TB Red hard disks in one drivepool using 2x duplication
then add an 8TB CloudDrive (G Suite) to the same drivepool for online redundancy.
My questions are as follows:
1) Is there anything special I need to do before decommissioning my existing 2 drivepools?
2) Can I just remove them from the DrivePool software, then create a new one and add all 5 of the disks to a new drivepool?
3) Given that 4 of the hard disks already have existing PoolPart folders (from my 'old' drivepool), will DrivePool leave all of my data alone and simply copy everything from the hard disk over to my CloudDrive?
4) I'm used to having 2 disk drivepool's with 2x duplication which is easy for my brain to understand. If I move to a 4 disk drivepool, how will I control which data sits on which drive? Does DrivePool decide this for me? (in other words, if I have a 3TB video folder, will DrivePool spread this data over 4 disks?)
Thanks in advance and apologies if this is a particularly stupid set of questions 