Adding cache drive to existing storage pool on windows 11?

racskobalazs · January 31

Hi all,

I have an existing mirrored pool of 2 disks on my Windows 11 machine, and I was wondering if I can add a read-write (or any) cache to the pool? Without rebuilding from 0?

Thank you in advance.

PDifolco · January 31

17 minutes ago, racskobalazs said:

Hi all,

I have an existing mirrored pool of 2 disks on my Windows 11 machine, and I was wondering if I can add a read-write (or any) cache to the pool? Without rebuilding from 0?

Thank you in advance.

Are the 2 disks HDDs?

Then a cache SSD (even a small 128/256GB one) would help

racskobalazs · January 31

51 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Are the 2 disks HDDs?

Then a cache SSD (even a small 128/256GB one) would help

Yes, they are HDD, and I have the SSD for the cache, I just can't figure out how to add it to the pool...

I tried simply adding the SSD in the GUI but it didn't act like a cache, it waited for another disk to extend mirroring.

PDifolco · January 31

22 minutes ago, racskobalazs said:

Yes, they are HDD, and I have the SSD for the cache, I just can't figure out how to add it to the pool...

I tried simply adding the SSD in the GUI but it didn't act like a cache, it waited for another disk to extend mirroring.

idk how to do this in Window I use caching software (Primocache)