I have installed the trial version of StableBit on WHS 2011 that backs up to a larger capable disk.

What I've done so far:

1).  added 2 2TB disks to the pool.   1 was almost full of data the other was almost empty.

2).  Copied shared folders from both of the disks to the pool.

3).  After copying all the data to the pool, disk space on both disks evened out (mostly).

4).  None of the folders are being duplicated. I have deactivated "read stripping" and the duplicate optimizer

       balancer.

5).  Customized WHS backup to back up the individual pooled folders without backing up the originals.

Question:

What happens to all of my data if 1 of the disk goes bad???  

Meaning will I be able to restore the data if part of it was on the bad disk??

Hi folks,

I've recently had to upgrade to a new server. All's gone well in terms of re-installing + initialising SBDP. However, the Pool Drives look a bit funny:

You'll note F: is just grey. I've done "Remeasure" but still grey. Wierd thing is it's showing as 78.7% full! Also - checked disk - no SMART errors. Seems clean.

Other info:

Any ideas? Should I worry?

I'm currently running Windows 10 64 bit. I had a 120gb OS ssd drive that was by itself, and six platter drives in my drive pool. This setup has been rock solid for me for over a year. Just today I upgraded my OS drive because the size was too small via Samsung's Data Migration Tool (a drive clone application that does a great job of cloning disks) and now when I reboot into the OS, my drivepool is not there. Not "missing" because all the drives appear in Explorer as they should with the hidden used portion that's typically for the drivepool. (All the drives that was currently in my pool are healthy).

When I open Stablebit (version 2.1.1.561) I only see an option to create a new drive pool. The old drives don't even exist in Stablebit to "reattach" them. It only shows the OS drive.

I am so frustrated and so scared at the same time that I may have lost all this data. Could someone please help point me in the right direction?

Regards,

 - Joe

Man I'm pissed, my 2 year old HP G7 N54L motherboard failed, and they are crazy if they think I'm going to spend that much on replacing that motherboard. Arrrrrg..

So I now have to build up a new computer, this time I'M going to build my own.. WHS 2011, ~46TB Single Storage Pool, Stable bit 2.0,

I have a couple of questions on how to do this correctly:

1) How do I de-activate my Lic. since I can't start up the computer?

While I'm at this, I'm going to change my eSATA 8 bay storage bay (Connector is flaky), with a USB 3.0 8 Bay Storage bay, and I'm getting rid of a 5 bay storage bay, and moving those drives to the new server.

2) Given the above, what is my best game plan on moving all these drives?

Here is the build Basics.

Silverstone Case

ASRock C2550D4I Motherboard

Mediasonic H82-SU3S2 8 Bay Storage

Finally have my new home server (SERVER A) stable and Drivepool is working very well.

But - as a restless spirit - I cannot leave well enough alone - so here's what's cooking in the next week or so.

In an effort to purge a huge pile of old parts from my stash (circa 2009-2012) I have now cherry picked the best couple of motherboards, CPU etc etc to build a secondary file server (lets call it SERVER B )

The intent of this second box is as a backup zone to our primary home server AND I also wanted to create a couple of VMs (Using Windows Server 2012R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled).

But as I read more about the CPU I intend to use (Q9550) on the motherboard I intend to save (GigaByte EP45-UD3R) with the RAM I have available (8GB DDR2) - I am getting a sense that certain virtualization extensions for Hyper-V 2012 may not be fully supported given the age of these parts. I am also wary of the available RAM if I want to create several more VMS later. SERVER A has 16GB while SERVER B will only ever have 8GB. (DDR2 RAM is non existent now)

So - I got to thinking - it may be much better to use my brand new Xeon based Server A for my Hyper-V experiments (as it has all modern Virtual extensions ready to roll) and instead transition the NAS drives from the new server over to this secondary build and make it the "primary file server".

But what exactly would need to happen if I did decide to take the drives out of Server A and stick them in Server B? What exactly do I need to do on SERVER A to make a transition? Do I go into Disk Manager and simply "delete/remove" all the drives? Do I simply shut down the box and pull the drives out? Do I need to deactivate my DrivePool and Scanner licenses on Server A first - before removing drives?

I am very keen on knowing the correct "order" of operations before I attempt anything as I cannot have the server drives compromised in any way. Just want to make sure I do it by the book - the right way - the first time.

Any info on how to accomplish the following would be most appreciated.

Cheers!
 

Sonic.

Hi All,

I've had some searching around the forums and tried a few basic things to resolve my issue but no luck so far. To summarise:

Drive Scanner found some bad sectors on one of my drives, and thus told Drive Pool to move all data off the disk (as it should). Unfortunately I didn't have enough free space on the other drives so I ended up with a fair bit of duplicated data left over on the trouble disk. After moving the machine to a new case (I didn't have enough space for another drive and had been meaning to move over the internals but hadn't gotten around to it) and installing a new drive I added it to the pool and figured that would be that and all the files would migrate across. Unfortunately it seems that it's getting stuck on 3 files, and not progressing any further, so I'm left with 6 drives that are essentially at 100% capacity and a new drive that's only at maybe 40% usage, with Drive Pool telling me it's got 1.6TB of space unusable for duplication.

I upgraded to (what I think is) the latest BETA version (2.2.0.672) and tried re-balancing the pool several times, but it always gets stuck on those 3 files without moving any further. All 3 files are >1GB MKVs (if that makes a difference). The files aren't accessible using the pool, as I get a file not found error, and the duplication warning dialogue just says "Incorrect Function". I've dug around though the hidden pool folders on each drive and found intact copies of 2 of the trouble files (and made copies to the system drive which isn't part of the pool for safe keeping), with the plan of deleting the files from the pool, finishing the balance, and then restoring them, however I can't delete the files from the pool either.

Is there anything else I can try to fix the issue? Losing these 3 files isn't a big deal (as I have copies of 2 of them and don't care about the 3rd) but I obviously need to get the pool balance back to normal in case of another failure.

System info:

Server 2012 R2 Essentials

Drive Scanner 2.3.2.2886 (I think)

Drive Pool 2.2.0.672

Drives:
128GB SSD (System Drive)

7 x 3TB HDDs (pooled)

1 x 3TB HDD (bad sectors, unpooled, still has pool files on it though)

I am using Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard, and I want to start Encrypting my drives.

Is there a recommended method for doing this with DrivePool? Is Bitlocker my best bet?

Hi all,

I've been running Stablebit Drivepool for years with no problems, but last week my PC had a hard shutdown, since then I have this problem.

I can see and access my Drivepool ok, (Drive I:), the SB Drivepool service is running, but when I try to access the SB Drivepool tab in the WHS 2011 Dashboard the Dashboard freezes.

I've tried the following fixes:

Rebooted the PC

Run a repair of the Drivepool installation (from the Windows Uninstall programs control panel page)

Restarted the SB Drivepool service

Any ideas? I'd like to try removing and/or reinstalling Drivepool  but I'm not sure if that's a good idea?

Thanks for the help :-)

I'm not really looking for subsonic support here, but their forums are a ghost town. I've had StableBit Drivepool for a while, and LOVE it (I can't actually believe I actually trusted FlexRAID before this and lost all my data). I've been running Subsonic just fine on my Drivepool for a while, but haven't added any "new" music since I did the first initial scan. However, I just added new music for the first time, and it never finds it. I've found one other post that said they use stablebit and can't find new music either, but there was never any replies to that topic.

Does anyone else have problems with this? I'm on the latest 6.0 final release, and it's weird since the initial scan works and I use it daily....but now that I'm finally adding new music it never finds it. I know I've had problems with Plex's database residing on my drive pool with media (posters/backgrounds) not displaying, and I guess that's a known issue because of how the file paths are handled....so I'm wondering if that may be the same type of thing happening here.

Any ideas? Anyone else ever heard of this? 

i tryed setting drivepool 30day trial up on my gaming rig activated the 30day trial... renamed pc to the proper name and rebooted... now Drivepool is insisting on a licence transfer from my server... why is this? please help... i wanna run the 30day eval and buy the licence in next few weeks.. is this allowed?

I have an 8-Bay USB 3.0 enclosure that is combined using DrivePool.  90% of the time when I reboot the shares folders are no longer shared and have to be re-created. Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening? It started after I replaced a faulty drive with a new one. I upgraded from the version I was using to the most recent stable version with the same results, and the newest beta, with the same results. I am not using CloudDrive.

Thanks.

Hi! I am using a NUC as a home server.

This is my setup:

BOXNUC6I3SYH

Kingston M.2 2280 120GB SSD

HyperX Impact DDR4 2133MHz 8GB SODIMM

Windows 10 Pro

StableBit Drivepool

StableBit Skanner

ICYBOX IB-3680SU3 HDD

4xWD RED 6TB NAS drive

1xSeagate Archive 8TB 5900RPM SATA

1xSeagate ST40000DM000-1F2168

Sometimes the NUC is loosing the connection With the ICYBOX or a single drive, and the only thing that Works to get it back online again is to reboot the NUC and the ICYBOX. I have updated all the drivers and bios. I have a little less than 2TB of free Space left in the drivepool. This is not my first time harddrives are lost when the pool/drives are getting full. Does anyone of you know why this happens, or  have a solution to fix this. I believe this is the Third computer I've set up to get a working system. Hope you can help...

Roger.

I've just installed DrivePool for evaluation and activated my trial license. However, after a reboot and relaunch, I'm still presented with the same options as prior to activating my trial: "Get a trial license or enter a retail license code", with a button prompting me for an activation ID.

What gives? Am I able to evaluate this software? I have never used any Covecube products in the past.

Hi

Today I tried to build my Drivepool new from Scratch.

I attached 2 pcs. 8TB (expand in future every time by 2 pcs) and 2 pcs 1TB SSD for cache.

In the Image1 you can see the 8T Drives as "ARCHIV A 1" "ARCHIVE B 1" and the 2 Cache on the left side in the Diskmanager, on the right side, stable pool is not created.

I add "ARCHIVE A 1" to Pool as the first drive.

If you look at the Diskmanager in the Image 2 on the left side only a 2 TB Drife is created. If I attach all the other Drives, and try to copy a lot of files to the Pool Drive, the pool breaks if the limit of 2TB is reached.

Can you help me please.

Thanks a lot

Best Regards from Austria

So I've been using the beta version and love it so I purchased an activation along with an activation of scanner just to keep track of my drives since i have one that is 6 years old. Before using scanner my files were spread through out all three drives I have in my drivepool, 2 5TB drives and one 2TB drive. Well I've been running the scanner and it just finished scanning my 2TB drive and it found one bad block. Well I wasn't too concerned since the drive is old. Well just now I noticed that in the drive pool menu it shows that my 2TB drive is now empty. I checked the other drives and the data has been moved to those drives so nothing is missing as far as I can tell. What I'm wondering is when Stablebit Scanner finds a bad block does it then tell Drivepool to move the data off of that drive and onto the healthy drives?

I've almost finished virtualising my home infrastructure, with everything running on a backbone of Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacentre. This seemed like such a good idea (and it was!) until the premature arrival of my new Son. Now its going rather slowly...!

The last device remaining outside of this is my WHS2011.

I have P2V'd my WHS2011 and am preparing to make that transition after some testing this weekend.

I'm just wondering though if I might take this opportunity to move to Server 2012 R2 (Essentials or otherwise), especially given the EoL of WHS (though I understand we will continue to receive security updates), I've read a lot about this and will probably opt to test Server 2012 R2 first before moving the box over. A lot of thoughts seem to be along the lines of using Server 2012 if you have access to it?

I guess I just want a bit of advice on how to setup the drivepool in a virtual environment. I understand that for SMART I'm going to have to buy two copies and run it as in this thread, but what is the best way to set up the disks for the drivepool? Bearing in mind when moving the live system I won't want to be formatting any disks.

Should I set up the drivepool on the physical system (Datacentre) and monitor these drives from within WHS2011 (or WHS2012)? Or does Drivepool work better if I pass through the disks (ignoring why this is becoming a deprecated technology for a moment) and run them exclusively inside the VM?

From an infrastructure point of view, I don't really care where I run the Drivepool, other than having a preference for it to not be on the physical host directly, but if this is better all round, than I'll do that.

Also, I don't yet have an additional network card as I just haven't gotten round to getting this setup whilst I've been testing things. I will ultimately have two seperate physical network interfaces, is it best for performance and reliability to dedicate one to the Drivepool machine?

And on the subject of networking I'd ideally like to go down the route of teaming but with dns round robin. Any issues with Drivepool and that? Or is there a better networking solution?

I seem to be having an issue with files not appearing in the pool. In this case i noticed when trying to update my subsonic_exclude.txt file in D:\Music and it wasn't there. I thought hmmm that's odd, I don't remember deleting it. I don't know maybe I did, so i created a new text file with the same name and explorer is asking to overwrite the file so I clicked cancel. So it seems the file is still there, but I cant see it. I mounted the drive to an ntfs folder and looked in the music folder (inside the poolpart folder) and sure enough, the file is there, I had never deleted it after all. I tried resetting the drivepool settings but the file still wont appear. Any thoughts? I'm using StableBit.DrivePool_2.2.0.670_x64_BETA on Win10 with a 13 drive pool.

decided to remove three 3tb wd red as they has been running for 3 years

whilst removing the second one I noticed after remote desktop into sever that I had 152 alerts

couldn't read them so after the last drive was removed I rebooted server

now alerts are showing as no data

running 2.20.670

any ideas please

I'm using DrivePool on my laptop with one local drive and one drive on a server on my home network pooled together. My folder duplication is set to 2. I'm working remote now and not able to access the home server. 

CloudDrive correctly detects that it's not able to connect to the server and this causes programs to freeze when trying to access data on the pooled drive. Is there a way to temporarily disable the drive and duplication settings so that I'm able to use the pooled drive? Or should I mount the single drive, write data to it and reattach it to the pool later?

DrivePool v2.2.0.651 BETA

CloudDrive v1.0.0.594 BETA

Currently I'm trying to consolidate my Plex library into one contiguous (virtual) pool. Right now I have TV and Movie content on two different RAID based NAS devices. DrivePool seems like a solid option. To that end I've ordered 2x 8tb archive drives and expect delivery today. 

Right now my plan is to install the 2x 8tb drives on my Windows based plex server and configure them in a pool with no duplication (initially). From there I will offload the NAS data onto the pool, and will keep those devices active in the near future to serve as a backup to the primary pool. Eventually I may add more drives to the pool itself and enable file duplication there, which would free up the NAS devices for other use. Suggestions on Windows software to perform the data copy? (Windows File Explorer seems less than idea for such a large dataset)? I currently have a license for SyncBack Pro. 

I'll be putting approx 13tb of data onto the pool once it is built. From what I've read the seagate archive drives don't write large sets of data very well, due to the way they buffer incoming data. Would I see any advantage to adding in a SSD via the Optimizer plugin? I assume it would help offset the slower write speeds of the archive drives. Any suggestions on drive size?