I have had the opportunity to read many of the posts here as well as the technical documentation and still have a questions.
I have noted in the posts and the Microsoft documentation that you should install your largest drive as the primary drive. Here is the scenario I would like to explore.
3 Drive system, either 3-1 TB drives or alternately 2-1TB drives and 1-500GB Drive.
My thinking at this point is that I could save some money (about $180) by going with scenario 2 and installing the 500GB drive as the primary. The reason that I think this is that the documentation states that in a system where there are at least 1 primary and 2 secondary storage devices, that drive extender always stores the actual file and any shadow (duplicate folder) copy of the file on the secondary devices, leaving only the tombstone on the primary data drive.
If this is true, I envision all of of the files on the two TB drives and gobs of 4K tombstones on the primary drive. If even only 450GB remained on the primary drive after the server partition and formatting of the drive, that would leave room for over 112 Million tombstones.
I also realize that the size of any individual file copy is limited to the available space on the primary data partition, that the size of the files I would be able to copy would go down as the number of tombstones went up. But still, I could have 55 Million tombstones and still have about 225GB free on the primary.
I just hate to waste expensive drive space on the primary if it will never be used!
Any comments will be appreciated!
