Can you set up multiple vm-pools?

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Exactly as it says on the tin.
Is it possible to set up more than one vm-pool with each one dedicated to specific sets of qubes and templates?

For example, I might set one SSD for all my regular apps and another SSD for storing all my media files like movies and music or ZM files for accessing with Kiwix.

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Yes, thats possible. I use such a setup with an pool on a ssd for live qubes and a pool on a hdd for archives and mass storage.
You can find some infos here:

There are some changes in the new version 4.3, for example, you can during creation of a qube decide, on which pool they should be created.
Before, it was possible in terminal only.

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More specifically, I have three storage devices and my current plans are…

  • OS Drive in a 1TB M.2 NGFF SSD with Qubes installed in a 128 or 256GB root partition.
  • My main VM-Pool in a 1TB partition in a 2TB SATA SSD
  • A secondary VM-Pool in 1.5TB partition in a second 2TB SATA SSD, dedicated for housing IIAB software and content.

I basically plan to have a Qubes daily driver with an IIAB library that’s easy to access whenever I’m unable to access online. Originally, I wanted to pair the two 2TB SSD’s in a RAID1 array (with 1 TB vm-pool partition) until I found out the amount of IIAB content I want exceeds 1TB so I’m making a compromise here.