It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/rastyus on 2025-07-23 02:46:46.

My goal is to have one big logical drive jbod style for ease of use, with the ability to add and remove drives as my needs require. I have redundancy via other means.

As far as I understand a simple storage spaces pool, the data on the drive can only be read in that pool. Ie it's raid like, if your pool fails you lose your data, can't easily move an individual drive and data together to a new machine etc.

This making me lean towards drivepool as you can keep the original drive partitions intact, can pull a drive out plug it into another computer and read that data, if a drive fails you only lose what's on that drive.

I just want to confirm that I am not doing something wrong/missing a setup option with storage spaces before I buy a drivepool license.