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Marjo -  
 Marjo -
Hello everyone,
I need some clarification...
So, I just bought a 4TB hard drive to replace my old (too old) one, which is only used for storage (mostly games).
I use an SSD for the system and a large HDD for the rest.
I need to format this new drive to use it, but I feel lost when Windows talks to me about pools and resiliency.
For the pool, apparently, I have no choice but to create it, which I have done. But for the resiliency, I'm stuck: Does "double mirror" use up twice as much space on the disk?
Also, for the maximum size, I don't know what to enter; the pool is 3.63 TB, but this value is incorrect for maximum size...
I'm hesitant to start the formatting process.

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    epango Posted messages 37195 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   Ambassadeur 4 270
     
    Is your OS in French or English? If not, it's a simple thing. Your PC is apparently in UEFI mode since it allows you to create a volume (which is probably called a pool) of 3.63TB. So, you just need to go to Disk Management. You have the option to have only a single partition on the entire disk. In that case, you create a volume of 3630GB as proposed. Otherwise, you can create a smaller volume, for example, 2000GB. This would allow you to create a second partition on the remaining space.

    Note. Your 4TB hard drive is seen by your computer as a 3.63TB disk. There is no anomaly. This is largely due to the decimal/binary conversion.

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  2. Marjo
     
    Thank you epango
    So, does the mirror mode double indeed use double the space?
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    1. epango Posted messages 37195 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 270
       
      What do you want to talk about? About a RAID?
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  3. Marjo
     
    When formatting, I am offered; resilience mode: simple, double mirror, triple mirror, or parity. Apparently, it's to secure data by creating a systematic copy. So if I understand correctly, if I install a 20GB game, 40GB will be used on my disk?
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    1. epango Posted messages 37195 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 270
       
      I have no idea what you did. Do you have any special software?
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  4. Marjo
     
    Windows 10 ?

    My question was "What the hell is resilience?"

    Just in case, I formatted it as "simple" and got the result I was expecting. So well, just in case my problem is "resolved".
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