Hope someone can help me - I'm not sure what to do with my current setup.
I have DrivePool 1.3 installed on WHS 2011. I have 3 drives in my pool (2 x 3TB and 1 x 2TB). Today I noticed that one of the 3TB drives was "missing" in DrivePool. Looking at diskmgmt.msc I saw that the drive was present, but unformatted (ie showed as "raw"). Look at the system events viewer I saw some "Event ID 11" errors which may mean the controller is not working (could mean replacing the motherboard possibly I guess).
I rebooted the machine, then saw that the problem drive was now recognised as NTFS formatted. DrivePool had added the drive back into the pool, and is now going through the duplicating process. It's up to 10% as I speak, but going very slowly (it took around 8 hours to get to this point, although for some reason it appears to be going a little bit faster now).
I guess that the duplicating process is completely tying up the server, as it is very sluggish to do anything else, and trying to copy any files from the server over the network is pathetically slow.
What do you think I should do in this situation?
- Wait for the duplication to finish (if I'm lucky it might be finished overnight)?
- Check the problematic hard drive in some way (not sure if it is on it's way out)
- Upgrade DrivePool to 2.1?
Thanks!