September 14, 2025Sep 14 Community Expert I am aware it is not recommended to use USB bay enclosures in an array.Reality is thought that I have too many disks and need to find some way to figure it out. My "internal disks" are part of an array, which works well. I am currently connecting the USB disks individually as unassigned devices. This works very well for me. Only issue for me is that they are not part of the user shares. But overall, it is ok like this.With multi-pool now being supported, I am thinking whether it is worth to rethink my current setup. My array will stay the same, but I am wondering whether something else for me to to do with the disks in the USB enclosure:1) The most incremental change would be to mount the disks in the enclosure as individual pool devices rather than unassigned devices. This would make them part of the user share. Anything bad about this change? Would this negatively impact array performance?2) A bigger change would be to make the disks inside the array as a multi-disk pool. Would this be possible or has the same issues as having an array in an usb enclosure?3) Or has technology advanced so much that I can now even have an array that mixes internal disks with disks in an USB enclosure?Thanks for any thoughts you may have!
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