I've had a few problems with DrivePool showing "inconsistent duplication" that usually resolved themselves by rerunning the duplication check. In efforts to fix this I upgraded to several beta versions, most recently 765. Unfortunately lately my "Checking..." run always gets stuck on 94.1%, "working on the entire pool" - although everything appears responsive there is no disk activity anymore and in fact the DrivePool service cannot be stopped at that stage. This is on Windows 10. I'm not sure whether this is down to the Betas or whether something changed on my disks in the meantime as well.

The actual check progresses quite quickly until it hits the 94.1%. I was wondering whether it gets stuck on the same files - thankfully the latest betas show the actual file in progress when hovering over the status, and it does always seem to be the same file. But I deleted the specific folder/files, and now it always gets stuck on the same, but new file. It generally seems to be files in my Steam Library, but that's probably due to it taking up quite a lot of space in that pool.

The only strange thing I have noticed is that a new set of ..DiskIdentificationInfo.json files seem to be arriving in C:\ProgramData\StableBit DrivePool\Service\Store\Json every minute - no idea whether that's normal.

Any advice would be appreciated, including how to supply diagnostics. It's quite concerning that data might in fact not be duplicated correctly, even though everything seems to be working in terms of access to it.

Hello everyone, (screenshots linked below)

i have been crazy trying to fix plex, my Fiance just had spinal surgery and is a heavy plex user especially now. I really have no idea what is going on, but i can explain everything in detail if needed im relatively tech savvy.

So this person from Netgear was assisting me in an issue where i could not access a specific set of folders which i needed to access for remote video editing on my other home private network. So the netgear tech went in and i thought they knew exactly what they were doing but they seemed to be experimenting as they went along, but this issue had me stumped for weeks so i let them go ahead thinking they a the professionals.

Plex has been working PERFECTLY on the same equipment, same settings everything up until after the tech phone call where she changed windows permissions and security settings on a bunch of different drives and folders (in order to troubleshoot my lack of access problem, separate from plex) plex at the time was working fine.

The thing is these videos i could not get to are also stored on my dedicated PLEX Drivepool, where i keep all files for video only. So in the process of trying to allow me access through network/windows permission settings , it changed something and now plex has no idea what to do or how to access the files. i can post screen shots if you want.

Now when i click on a file through plex it shows in RED "Unavailable" and once you click the error to see further details it says " Inaccessible" in RED and when you mouse over "Please check the permissions for this file". When i click play, it attempts to play or says loading failed or check permissions. 2 more important things to add, MOST of the files will not play but i found a folder that will play fine through plex as if nothing ever happened. Here is the error i get :

PLEX: "Conversion Failed. The transcoder crashed or failed to start"

File reading failed:
VLC could not open the file "P:\Movies\3.Beverly.Hills.Cop.III.1994.mp4" (Bad file descriptor).

Your input can't be opened:

VLC is unable to open the MRL 
'file:///P:\Movies\3.Beverly.Hills.Cop.III.1994.mp4'. Check the log for details.

THE SCARY PART for me... when i click on the SOURCE video files, directly through my pc, not using plex... most files have errors playing in VLC, im not sure if its a VLC error or all my files toast ? i will be devastated if my collection is gone.

Plex Server is running on my Windows 7 PC downstairs, hardwired into home network. it solely dedicated for plex and i really dont use it for much of anything else anymore, except for being my Media server where i have x4 WD RED NAS 4TB drives which make up my plex database. which are all drivepooled into one drive to make things simpler

"PLEX (P:)"

Please let me know if you need any other information. THANK YOU for listening and helping, any and all advice is welcome to fix this. (sorry if i made it too long)

SCREENSHOTS:

For a while now I have had issues where files will not duplicate properly after downloading and moving them, It doesn't happen all the time, and I have been busy so I never bothered looking into it

Today I noticed that a TV show would not duplicate

So I checked to see if anything had it open, and it didn't. HOWEVER my "deluge" account which is used by Deluge running on a CentOS 7 VM had the original download file open, which no longer existed. I thought this was weird, because how can you have a file open which doesn't exist?

So I closed the file, and then the file in /Data/Media/TV Shows/wherver duplicated fine

Is this a DrivePool issue, or a Windows SMB issue, or a CentOS/Deluge issue?

Related to this, sometimes I have a problem where I will download a file, move it and find that the file is now also back in the downloads folder, because Deluge is still hanging onto it. Closing the session/open file makes the file disappear 

When I add a torrent, the file will start downloading to \\FS01\Data\Downloads\Incomplete, and when done it will move to \\FS01\Data\Downloads. From there I will remove the torrent from Deluge, and move it to \\FS01\Data\Media\ and then a subfolder

All of these folder are on the same pool. \\FS01\Data\Downloads is NOT duplicated, the rest of pool is 

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should resolve this?

If I build a Windows 10 Professional Server and it is connected to my Wifi network, what software or hardware do I need to add in order to access the files stored on the server from outside my home?  And what do I need in order to upload or download to/from the server.  I am a photographer and want to be able to access photos and to upload photos from a variety of locations if I can get on the internet.

I was so exited when I found DrivePool and Scanner about 2 years ago, that I bought the whole "package" right then and there. I think I even own a licence for CloudDrive, though I never tried it 

•  1. DrivePool, for some ungodly reason, scatters files willy-nilly, like a shot from the shotgun (I know there are reason(s), I read something by Alex somewhere, but I don't think, they're good enough to warrant this situation). At least it's by default. And actually that's a "preferred" type of operation, as I understand. Why there isn't an option to keep files together in the same folder structure, is beyond me. For example how unRAID does it. Further-more unRAID could get away with scattering files wherever, because it uses parity for protection, not duplication. Drivepool, on the other hand - cannot get away with this (more on that later).
• • IMHO, this is the biggest flaw in DrivePool, so it bears repeating. No folders splitting. Or rather a really good system to setup the folders splitting. Again - look at unRAID and do what they're doing. i.e.: splitting of TV Shows when copying to the pool. Now - all the shows have most of the episodes scattered on all 50+ drives. Stupid.
• 2. Simple real life example (my home server). At the "height" of my excitement with DrivePool, and by that I mean the days just after I found/bough/installed it on my server, I put all my spinners (on my server) in a pool. That's 50+ drives in a single pool. I loved the convenience of the pool and navigating/finding everything easily. I have setup 2x duplication on some folders, not all the of pool (not all files need protecting). Anyway, some weeks later my first drive died, while using DrivePool. Fuck. Not because drive died - no - because the first thing I obviously needed to know was - what files have I lost. I came to the forums, and quickly found, that even though DrivePool's half of functionality is file security (by a way duplication) - it does not keep track of files on the pool, in any shape or form. Fakme. Now that was stupid, I thought to myself. Especially, if you gonna throw my files around the disks, where I have no idea where they actually are - how the fuck can you not keep track of them, so you could tell me, what I've lost if a drive dies? And up to this day, I have no idea what I've actually lost, just that it was ~3TB of stuff. Love it 
• • After that happened, I had a thought and stopped using duplication. Actually, of course, the first thing I've done was to setup auto-scanning of the DrivePool pool every 6 hours with WhereIsIt, so the next time a drive dies, I would at least be able to know what the hell I've lost. Once again - I need a third party tool to keep track of my files. I'm sorry, but this is inexcusable.
  • Please, do not mention the "Ordered File Placement" plug-in. Of course, drives need to be filled evenly, not one at a time. For speed, for wear and tear, what have you. Just simply, don't scatter files - keep them together.
• 3. A shitload of empty folders in the drives are driving me nuts. With this scattering of files there are probably more freaking empty folders on the drives than actual files. Dafuk.
• 4. At the very least - implement file and folder access in the balancer development (IIRC, now you can't), so I could write my own implementation of keeping files and folder on the same disks, if you don't want to...  Because this madness with file placement is making the program unusable. Reasons - below.
• 5. I have been using DrivePool for the last 1,5, at least - just because I am too lazy to disband the pool and then manually restore the order in all that mess that DrivePool created. But I'm finishing up writing a little program, that will do it for me, so fingers crossed... I might get back some sanity in my file system, soon. Anyone know of a tool which would help in this? Really lazy to code now...

• 6. I've been eagerly waiting for grouping of drives, to finally make duplication usable. Yes, I said it. Because as it is now - duplication is unusable. Not even close. Anyone having 2x duplication and lots of drives and lots of files is actually bound to loose a shitload of files in case more than 1 drive fails at the same time. And with quality of drives nowadays - good luck... And if you don't believe me, think about it - I'll describe my reasoning in the following points:
• • Like I mentioned before, after loosing my first drive in the pool, I disabled the duplication. The reason was simple - I did some thinking. I have 50+ drives, probably a million plus files. DrivePool scatters files to as many drives as it can, whenever it can. If 2 drives die - how many files would actually have both copies on those drives (1 copy on each drive with 2x duplication). The answer is not zero. 100% - some files would get lost. And if someone offers me to do 3x duplication, then can I haz some of your money, plz... It's been too long for me to remember how to actually do the probability math, but simple logic dictates - that duplication would not help me at all to keep all my files safe, in case 2 drives go tits up at the same time. Basically, the more drives you have, the more files you have - the more fucked you are with 2x duplication. And remember... on top of that you will have no fucking idea, what files you have just lost... enjoy...
• 7. Now I see the drive groups arrived. And it's still does not fix the above problem. Am I understanding this correctly - you can make same old-style pools which can have duplication settings inside them and separately from one another. And then you pool those pools together? So they do not duplicate from one pool to another pool? Why the hell not? Isn't this, like, the first and only thought process, how to do this type of drives grouping, with the duplication in mind? What the hell, seriously... However many drives you have - split them in the middle by the age (how old they are) and that's your 2 groups. This way, all the oldest drives are duplicated into the all the newest drives. And you are sure, that each file has at least one copy in a new drive. Isn't that obvious? Want more than 2x duplication - split into more groups, but again, use common sense and group them drives by age. And duplicate between groups!
• 8. And anyway, duplication of 100TB+ or more of media files, seriously? Would love to be that rich, so it wouldn't hurt the wallet. How about implementing a SnapRAID over the pool. With cache/landing disk (or landing disks group) that would be easy. To keep all the files always secured:
• • files get copied to duplicated landing disks.
  • Then, in the background they get copied to the snapraid protected pool drives.
  •  Snapshot gets updated.
  • Now that files are properly secured on the pool by snapraid - they can be deleted from the landing disks.
  • Result - no wasted money and drives on a stupid duplication and files are protected way way better with multiple parities, if you want, and checksumming against bitrot and some-such. If it's impossible for you to use another free program like that in your paid software - give as an option to do it ourselves, by keeping the fucking files together. Because, I would've done things this way ages ago, if not for the stupid shit DrivePool does whenever it wants.

• 9. Balancing. Don't get me started... Stop this fucking Apple-like magic, where program does whatever it wants, and I have no clue what the hell is going on. Instead, show it to me. Because magic-like operation is nice, sometimes, but not here. And it must work perfectly 100% of the time. If not - I'm an idiot who doesn't know what the hell is going on with his own files on his own computer. And DrivePool is far from 100% perfect. And I'm not expecting it to be. It is a mirracle, as it is, with only 1 dev working on it.
• 10. This bears repeating. Show me what the fuck DP is doing and especially - why. Not the same single meaningless phrase on the GUI - "moving files because whatever". But actually, moving these files from this drive to this drive, because of this balancer, or these file placement rules changes, etc...
• 11. Add an option to simulate balancing and let me choose what or if I wanna do it.
• 12. Add option to force re-balancing. Better still, to force re-balancing on individual balancer.
• 13. For the love of god - give me an  option to manually control (start/stop) the balancing. Let me select which drives I want to balance, with which balancer(s), so when I fire up the balancer, it would not go and do some shit I do not care for and waste time and my patience. When I change the file placement rules, I probably always want to balance something specific. Just... let me.
• 14. It would be nice, to able to prioritize balancing actions. Like a queue. This would be very helpful on big re-balancing jobs. That's, if  we ever get control of balancing.

• 15. SSD Optimizer title for a balancer is confusing. Change it to Landing Disk or Cache Drive or something similar. Because that's was it does, basically.
• 16. The minimum free space should be set in one and only one place . Multiple balancers have it - why!? Also, there is percent and size based settings at the same time - again - why? In short, leave the free space settings only in Prevent Drive Overfill and that's it, only with ability to set free space per drive basis, if we want. Drives now come in 1-10TB, most commonly, which is a huge difference.
• 17. Filter (file/folder placement rules) also by size. eg: maybe I would want all the metadata for movies and tv shows to be placed on the ssd, so the spinners would contain only big video files. Less fragmentation. Speed accessing metadata. That'd be neat.

• 18. OK, let's move on onto another awful thing. The GUI. Talk about style over substance. Should I drop a screenshot of the DrivePool GUI in full-screen on a 21:9 ultra-wide screen monitor, or is it easy enough for anyone to actually imagine, how ridiculously unpractical it is, without even seeing it? Starting with having a program in 3440x1440 resolution and still not being able to see even half of my drives in a list. Stupid wasted desktop real estate galore. I have never ever seen anything like this before, ever.
• 19. The drives list is also wasted space. And of course - there's no way to see all your drives at once. Have too many drives - scroll through this one listview, never-mind there's plenty of space all around for a different view displaying more/all the drives in a wrap panel.
• 20. Disk performance view at the bottom right - you will see activity for only 5 files - and that's it. That's all you get. What the hell? I seriously wonder, how this decision got made. The main reason the program was created, was to manage files - but if you want to know anything about what's going on with those files - I'll show you only 5. Fuck the rest. You have 10 transfers... more...? Does not matter - 5, I say. Better look at that huge pie-chart, pretty, isn't it?...
• 21. Want to change some settings for the pool? Here's a universal icon for settings at the top on the right, nice and pretty intuitive... oh, wait... shit. That is not the options - what the hell? Oh here's options below that huge pancake in the middle. Oh, it's not a button to open the Settings - it's a menu, with sub-menus? Oh, I see, some menus are check-boxes and some actually open the settings window. What? There are multiple separate settings windows for all kinds of things.. Couldn't all of them be in one settings window, as per usual?  Oh, it would be too easy, intuitive and too simple to use, you say? OK, then...
• 22. I could go on like this for quite a while longer, but fuck it. There's more important things. During probably almost 2 years of using DrivePool and Scanner - I can confidently say, that 8 out 10 times I tried to control DP or Scanner on my server from my main rig - I could not. The trial on main rig expired ages ago. The drop-down menu selection to connect to server - there's no selection  but the local rig. 8/10 times there's no server option. I can't connect and control the actual DP and Scanner that I use. So now I have 2 programs installed in my main rig for no fucking reason. Beautiful.
• 23. I have a shit load of drives. I want to keep some folder on a single drive. I go into settings > File Placement > and either Folders or Rules, does not matter. Then I need to un-check all my drives, but one. One by fucking one. Where are the "Check All" or "Un-Check All" buttons? Which is a standard pretty much everywhere nowadays. But here - you wish, just click away... Stop using that stupid fucking Telerik (I gather it's Telerik, from the looks of it). Take Caliburn.micro and MahApps and use listviews which support all keyboard shortcuts of selecting out of the box. Done.
• 24. Let's say I am doing the file placement setup. Why the hell do you have 2 separate tabs for Folder and Rules? If you set the rules in Folder tab, they show up in the rules tab, which may have some other wildcard based rules as well. Is it for sorting? Because, you know - you could put it all in one tab...
• 25. And as always with DrivePool - the drives list in File Placement rules is in one column - scroll away... How about WrapPanel, at least here?
• 26. Folder tab at least shows how much of that folder is on what drive. Now why it scans for files every single time you select the folder in the list - nobody knows, I bet. Every single fucking time - pick two folders and click away between them - every time same shit - calculating. Calculating fucking what? How many minutes it would take to code one fucking button like - Scan - which would scan the whole pool once and then keep that info until you done with the settings? Fuck me. Off course here's that fucking problem, that DP does not keep the list of files and where they are on which drives. And it cannot display it to me, when it need to... Ashamed of the fucking mess it has made, probably...
• 27. So, because spreading the files all over the place is simply fucking stupid, I want to actually manage my file placement. I have a list of folders on my pool on the left, I have a list of drives on the right. OK. I select one of the folders from the pool on the left, and... fucking calculating... and... I get another fucking list of drives down below. Because... reasons. Now, if I want to check where actually are my files, on what disks, compared to the settings - I need to dart my tired eyes back and forth between two lists. Now, both lists have different font sizes and font weight (maybe even font family, who the fuck knows at this point), which makes it so much harder to "quickly match up". Because... reasons. Why the fuck would you not use the same list of drives on the right side, that you already have? How much easier would be to actually see straight away, which drives have been checked on/off and which actually have files from that folder in them? Elementary, my dear Watson. Of course, because it's DrivePool we are talking about - I need to mention straight away, that when I say - show the status of the files in the drive list on the right - I mean really fucking show it! Not some ridiculously small progress bar, like in the main window, where you could never see anything, if you let's say have 10GB of files on a 10TB drive. That shit would be indiscernible. Well, in this case, maybe the size column would help to fix this, at least. You could make it that it would be easy to spot if drives have any files from selected folder - change the drive item background color, or name color, whatever. Big green dot, if the drive has any files from that folder whatsoever. Anything to make it intuitive and easy to use.
• 28. Can I at least sort that second drive list down below? Nope. Sorted only by size taken. Imagine 50+ drives and finding some drive by name to see if it's even on the fucking list!
• 29. Wanna see the folder size - need to switch between a list and a pie-chart (thosetiny buttons at the top of folders list). Would it be so hard to show folder size by the folder name in the list up top? And whats with that pie-chart selection? It shows me the same size 2 times. One with a round blob, one with a tiny line. Am I missing something here?
• 30. Filter (file/folder placement rules) also on disks. ie: I select a disk and see/set which folders can go onto that disk.  Now, it is a pain to unselect every disk but one for every folder that I want to filter on. Especially, if I want it this way, I need to remember to go into settings and set filters on every new folder  I create in the root of the pool in the future. This filtering on disks could be an additional (opposite) way to  filter and set the rules.
• 31. Give us WebUI and let us control DP and others from the browser from wherever we want! It's not middle ages. And it's not that kind of program or the UI (especially as it is now) that would warrant you using WPF, and most importantly forcing me install 2 programs just to control them on another pc. That is whack.
• • I have 1 license of all 3 programs - DrivePool, Scanner and CloudDrive. But both DrivePool and Scanner are running on my home server, which I actually want and do control from my main rig. Now, of course, I need to install both DrivePool and Scanner on my main rig, as-well. Just to control them on the server. Fuck that...
• 32. WPF would be warranted for a program, which needs a hugely fast update times. All of the web UIs I use (and they are numerous) are faster than this WPF GUI now. Seriously. The GUIs now for both DP and SCanner are fucking slow as snails.
• 33. Constant Not Responding when opening GUIs. This embarrassing, dude... Async.
• 34. Give us full featured (and I mean full featured - every single command and data point) json Web API and see the community blow your socks of with their imagination and awesome web UIs. You're a 1 dev team. Use your head and delegate. With unRAID waking from the development sleep with these ground-breaking new features and FreeNAS catching up to unraid lately in the last versions (even though it's still a mess, with coral, etc...), if DrivePool wants to stay alive and relevant - make an API and let people make your program "great again"... lol But seriously... not a joke, just do it.
• Please, don't suggest that there is that dpcmd thing. It's capabilities are weak. And the output format is crazy (why would you not make it easily consumable)?
• 35. Or if you hell bent on WPF - still, with full API, we can make a kick ass WPF UI. MahApps and Caliburn.Micro - both free and awesome - fuck that stupid Telerik.
• 36. Would be nice to have an option to see the log in the UI. With good filtering.

• 37. At least give us as simple text log files. So I could tail them when I wanna know whats going on in DrivePool real time.
• 38. Probably a bug. Setting the priority of the running balancer or duplication is not displayed properly in the UI, if using multiple UIs on multiple computers. And priority resets to normal, it seems, if you close/re-open the UI which is totally annoying.
• 39. The last stable version was, when exactly? All I know it was before 07-Jul-2014, judging by the betas numbers in the list. And it's even buggy enough, that I never used it, and started by using beta straight away. Not by my own whim, mind you, by Chris'es recommendation. I know, there was CloudDrive to release. But 2 years? That's how software dies.
• 40. I'm not sure, if this crap still not solved - but you cannot save your settings with the pool, or export/import them. At least that was the case, last I checked. That is seriously messed up. If this is solved already, sorry... my bad. But I do not care to look for it, as it is especially hard to look for something that may not exist. I tried finding the info on dpcmd for about 20 minutes, when I was writing about it - could not find it.

• 41. And... Scanner. I'm too tired already to go through and remember every single shit that's bugging me about scanner. But most of what's UI-wise and stuff - applies here too. Scanners UI is crap. Once again - only a single view with a single lit. Oh, and could the drives list items be even bigger, so I could see even less number of drives at the same time and would need to scroll more?..
• 42. Allow setting concurrent scans per case. In my case every backplane has a separate link, and could use 4 links on the LSI HBA, 1 for each backplane.
• 43. Or better still - allow creating scanning groups. Most people probably use HBAs or RAID cards. Let us control the scanning settings, so we could achieve the optimum performance. Stop your fucking magic I-know-better and I do-it-auto-magically, which does not work properly, like most of the time.
• 44. UI does not collapse the list of drives. Actually it collapses the list and immediately expands it back again. wtf?
• 45. Yesterday I tried to open Scanner UI, and it took more than 2 minutes to open. It always takes long, way longer than it should (for what it is), but 2 minutes - fuck that shit. I'm asking you again, would you, please, gives us an API and let us make an awesome UI? Pretty fucking please... Because this shit is embarrassing (2+ minutes). Or at least Async that shit. Just for good measure - fuck Telerik and it's shit controls, again.

All, but the UI stuff, which could anyone argue is more of the preference kinda thing, IMHO is essential features, which methinks DrivePool must have, being the software that it is, as in managing your files on your file system. It needs to stop being magic that does not work perfectly, and instead - gives us control and choices. On the other hand, when it comes to UI, I stand by my opinions. Give me full featured API and I'll take care of my problems myself. That's all I ask Or again, wake up and let the community write your UI and balancers and what-have-you, for you...

Phew... This one's got away from me

I promise, I will cool off, return and edit all the fucks to something more cultured. Although, I don't want to take out all the emotion from the rant completely, and English is not my native tongue, so we'll see how that goes

I have a couple of media pools that I'd like to add an SSD to, as a landing disk when copying to the pool.

I have a spare 480GB SSD available and was wondering if I could split the disk into two 240GB partitions and add a 240GB partition to each of the media pools.

Will this work, and if it does can you think of any issues I may encounter, or do I need a SSD for each pool I want to add a landing disk to?

The media pools have no duplication running, as they are protected by CrashPlan backing up to a third, much larger, backup pool.

J

I'm new to DrivePool but so far I'm loving your product. I've recently setup two pools across eight 4TB Seagate's. During data migration I had several non-pooled external HDD's connected which have since been removed. Now after every reboot of the system I receive a notification stating drives F and G have been disconnected.

I had originally setup a pool that may have included these drive letters but removed all disks, cleared partitions, and reconfigured my pools after my initial setup because I wanted to mount the drives as paths. Please advise on how I can correct this. Thanks in advance for your help; the support you provide within this forum is truly outstanding!

System Info:

Windows 10 Pro

DrivePool Version 2.2.0.765

I've installed DrivePool twice now.  Each time I end up getting Bad Pool Header BSOD upon boot and had to reinstall Windows 10....ugh.

I'm using Windows 10 with Samsung SSD for boot drive and 8 hard drives mounted in exterior enclosures that I'm trying to create a pool with.  Nothing really unusual with my system so surprised to have problems.  I also tried DriveBender and immediate got the same BSOD.

Any idea what might be going on?

V767 looks pretty good (I like the addition of the ReFS drives) but I'm having an issue when trying to remove a Drive.  I've tried a couple of time to remove a drive but both times got a BSOD with a APC Index Mismatch.  I'm now moving the files manually with the DriveServer service stopped between drives and the only thing I can see is I have some directories with Full Stops in them that Windows does not like, but I'm not sure if this is the issue.  Windows did create Mini Dumps (Attached).

Thanks

Nathan

Hi all, sorry if this has been asked before but I wasn't able to find an answer. I've just setup DrivePool using 23 drives ranging from 3tb to 6tb. Everything appears to be going well, however I'm trying to add an 8tb archive drive to purely store duplicate copies of some folders.

Is this possible? I would have thought the Drive Usage Limiter balancer would do it, but it appears not.

My 8tb drive was the last drive I added to the pool and I then enabled duplication on the folders I wanted it on. The folder I want to duplicate is approx 5.3tb, which would obviously fit on the 8tb drive, however it appears to have spread this out over multiple drives, which isn't what I was hoping for.

Is it possible for me to achieve this or no?

Thanks in advance, loving the product and considering buying a second copy for my gaming pc to pool my SSD's together (currently trying it now and it seems to be working very well).

PS. attached screenshots show my setup and what its currently doing

I swapped out a drive for one with a higher capacity, I used the 'remove drive' option, when complete I then added the larger capacity drive to the pool. Initially it took time to repopulate the new drive and now the pool doesn't seem to have settled and it keeps checking, then duplicating, after duplication has finished it shows the pool is good only for a short time, about ten minutes I would say, then the cycle repeats, checking again and more duplicating, over and over.

I've attached a screenshot of some notifications, (only these few because I cleared them after reading earlier).

The pool seems to fine except for this issue, I'm fairly sure before swapping the drive this didn't happen, is there anything I can do?

I'm using beta v. 2.2.0.765

I've been wondering about this for some time now and today I ran into a major omission that left me baffled. Maybe I just overlooked it but I went to check what version I had and could not find it anywhere. In most Windows programs it's under Help -> About which is totally missing from Drivepool.... Or maybe I didn't see it?

I sometimes have a problem where I reboot my server, and it loses all the shares. I suspect this is happening because my fileserver is starting up so fast, its having to wait on DrivePool

I found a similar problem unrelated to Drivepool here: https://serverfault.com/questions/752895/windows-2008-r2-shares-disappear-on-reboot

It looks like the fix was to make the LanmanServer service dependant on the (In this case) Drobo service using this commant:

sc config LanmanServer depend= SamSS/Srv/DDServer

Okay, so I have used and loved DP and Scanner for as long as WHSv1 existed, and I continue to use them on my Server 2012 r2 machine.

It acts as a file server, "my documents" location, and machine back-ups location for our client machines in the house, making client restores\rebuilds super-easy, and accessing all of our "common files" a breeze across machines.

I use Crash Plan and love the way they all play together, both in theory and in practice - oh, yes, I have made more than my fair-share of "recovery scenarios" come to life over the years.

But, I am boring in my execution...I have 4 drives, and they are duplicated x4, so I essentially end-up with some semblance of a 4-drive RAID 0 configuration.

Mainly so if I die in a fiery car wreck, wifey can trip over the drive cage, take any random drive that falls out and have a friend set-it up on her local machine and life goes on without my techy-overhead.

Here's the situation and question: In the event of a single drive failure, the pool goes into read-only.

It *seems* like to get anything up and running quickly for normal use (say, for example, a Quicken file to which I will need to write) until a replacement drive is available, I would need to:

1. Turn duplication back to 3 (instead of 4)
2. Remove the bad drive

Otherwise, DP get's busy trying to make the 4th copy across the remaining three drives, and creates a balancing mess that later causes a bunch of overhead.

Am I doing (or thinking about) this wrong?

Is there a better way?

Wondering if anyone had any ideas.  I had implemented a symbolic link of a folder on my clouddrive to my drivepool.  I use this so plex can easily just search one drive and i can do the initial metadata and analyzing on a local drive before it moves to the cloud drive.  It worked fine till i had some issues with clouddrive slamming reads on my drives and i updated to the newest drivepool beta and also reset ntfs attributes.  I have reowned the pool and set correct attributions but plex can play video fine from the symbolic links but scanning it doesn't see them at all

Just wondering if anyone would have any ideas.

Double post please delete

Just set up a new system using Server 2016. I deactivated my license on the old system and installed it on the new system and it reactivated without a hitch. That was 2 days ago. Today I fired her up and Drivepool said I need to transfer my license to this computer. I did so and it was successful. My question is, why did I have to do it a second time?

Ok I know its a simple question but are the plugins for Drivepool supported with beta? I tried to install the SSD and file placement plugins and I get the message "Stablebit DrivePool 2.X needs to be installed before installing this plug-in". I have version , 2.2.0.767 BETA. With 64 bit Windows 10 Professional. I believe its 64bit (In Program Files folder not x86).

Is this true? I tried both 64 and 32 bit versions. 

I just installed DrivePool and used it to duplicate a pool from my older 2TB disk to a new 4TB one.  I'm planning to replace the old 2TB with another 4TB shortly.  After it finished, there is a slight consistency problem between the two drives.  One particular folder has 30,715 files on one of the drives, but only 30,641 on the other.  What makes it even weirder is that the new drive is the one with more files.  I drilled down through the folders trying to see what was going on.  The one in question is a backup of my wife's laptop from several years ago.  It's deep inside the AppData\Local folders.  From what I can tell, it may be some symlinked folders  Would those cause DrivePool to duplicate the files instead of the links?

Also, I was going to use the dpcmd check-pool-fileparts command, but it doesn't seem to work.  I thought maybe the public release didn't have it yet, but the newest beta doesn't seem to either.  It isn't even on the list of valid commands when you run it.  Was it removed at some point?

After using DrivePool for a number of years one of the drives finally died. Luckily everything I have is replaceable but the tricky part is figuring out what to replace as it's all TV shows and movies. Is there any way I can find out what is/was on each drive?

I see the PowerShell thread stickied but unfortunately I don't visit the boards often so I didn't have that set up.

Hey Guys - 

I've used Stablebit DrivePool and Scanner for at least a couple of years now and love it - thanks for the great work.  I do, however, have one issue that I haven't ever gotten resolved...

Issue: Disappearing / Reappearing Folders

I've had this issue for well over a year now and have been using a workaround which will no longer work due to new scripting I'm putting in soon.  I have a fairly large pool (stats below) which mostly contains media files.  The issue I'm experiencing is only in one folder / path and it happens to be one which has the most folders within its root coming out to about ~3,500.  Sometimes (cannot reproduce at will) when I or a script copies a new folder into this path, it does not appear in Windows Explorer or when I list directories within the command prompt.  I've found that if I know the name of the folder, I can change directory (cd foldername) from the command prompt and successfully enter it and list files within - but even after doing so it still doesn't appear in Explorer or a directory listing of it's root.  The folder will eventually appear as normal, but usually only after 1 sometimes 2 reboots and waiting a bit (waiting for a balance job perhaps?)

Before posting, I reviewed the logs, but they make no mention of the folder whatsoever nor any error.  Since this started, I've had my scripts put the new folders in a temporary dedicated folder while they are being accessed somewhat frequently, then have a Windows task nightly move all folders older than 7 days to the primary folder (one with the issue) as if they disappear for a while at that point, it's not as big of a deal.

I'm on the latest version of DrivePool with a pretty much default configuration except that I use the SSD plugin for new writes.  Since this has occurred, I also have performed an OS reinstall which obviously included reinstalling DrivePool then importing the pool, but found the issue remained.  Has anyone seen this behavior before and / or have suggestions?

Thanks!

Disk Pool PC Stats

- Windows 10 x64 Creator's Update

- Intel 3770k CPU OC'd to 4.0Ghz

- 32 GB RAM

- 44tb Drive Pool

- Samsung 850 Pro SSD for OS & primary apps (not in pool)

- 1tb Hybrid drive for App Caches & VMs (not in pool)

- 256gb SSD for VR Gaming Installations (not in pool)

- RocketRAID 2720 SAS Controller

- Nvidia GeForce 970 GTX

- Oculus Rift (3 sensors + 2 touch controllers)

- x3 monitors

- Huge tower with much cooling

- Many other devices & accessories

Disk Pool Stats

- StableBit DrivePool 2.2.0.651 Beta + SSD Optimizer Plugin

- 43.9TB Total / 42.9 unduplicated / 69kb duplicated / 50.7gb other

- RocketRAID 2720 SAS Controller connects 7 of the disks with remaining connected to motherboard / 6Gbps used where possible but 1-2 have 3Gbps

- 11 disks (10 Standard / 1 SSD)

- Balances immediately every 2 hours unless 25gb+ needs moving

- All 4 options for performance enabled (Lots of network I/O)