I have an array of 3 different drives which I use in single profile (no raid). I don't use raid because the data isn't that important to spend some extra money for additioinal drives.
But what I could not figure out exactly is on what granularity the data is distributed on the 3 drives.
I could find this on the wiki page:
When you have drives with differing sizes and want to use the full capacity of each drive, you have to use the single profile for the data blocks, rather than raid0
As far as I understand this means that not the whole files are distributed/allocated on one of the 3 drives but each of the file's data blocks.
This is unfortunate because losing only 1 drive will destroy the whole array. Is there a possibility to balance a single profile array at a file level? I would be fine with the risk of losing all files on 1 drive in the array but not losing the whole array if 1 drive fails.
