Drive is marked Read Only when a drive is missing from the Pool
When using DrivePool in conjuction with CluodDrive I have a problem when uploading a large amount of data. I have the following setup. 3x 3tb Drives for Cache for CloudDrive with 500Gb dedicated and...
View ArticleDrivePool + Google Backup & Sync
Greetings, I've attempted to search for an answer but so far have been unable to find one. I was previously using Storage Spaces in Windows 10 to pool my drives and I would back that up to Google...
View ArticleBringing disks offline
Hi, Brief description of my setup. 1x 5bay USB3 connected enclosure 1x External USB3 HDD Now the issue I'm facing is, whenever I have to swap disks on the 5bay, the enclosure actually disconnects...
View ArticleWin 7 Blue Screen 050 after DrivePool 2.2.0.852
I am running Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit which has been remarkably stable for more than 4 years. I added a new HGST 8tb He drive to replace an HGST 5 tb drive that was making loud noises. I installed...
View ArticleCrashPlan Real Time File Backup Broken After DrivePool Update
I had been running my WHS 2011 with DrivePool 2.2.0.651 for a long time with CrashPlan without any problems. After updating to 2.2.0.852, which required a clean install because of hibernation failures,...
View ArticleNew user with question.
Hi all. I've been advised to look at this as part of a home server refresh. Currently I have: 4x3TB 2x6TB 4x2TB All with data on and these are backed up via a HP P212 to a LTO4 tape autoloader by...
View ArticleBought DrivePool: Now what?
I have 4 HDD connected and I want to start using with all 4 since the main one is getting full. It is a mix of documents, files, photos, and movies. Documents and photos will be on all four while the...
View Article"Not enough space" when there actually is!
When replacing files larger than remaining space on the drive where these files are placed, I get the "Not enough space" message, even if there are plenty of space on the pool. DP should just delete...
View ArticleLimit usage on an individual physical drive?
Say I have several disks in my pool and I want to reserve extra space for "other" data on one or more individual disks. That's to say, I don't want Disk x to use more than a certain percentage or byte...
View ArticleiSCSI Migration Questions
I am currently in the process of moving my storage drives to a new separate 24-bay enclosure. My original plan was to have Drivepool running in that storage box, and map the pool as a network drive to...
View ArticleCan you move a pool from one machine to another?
Hi all, I wanted to know if there is a proper way to do this. If I wanted to move an entire pool (all drives) from one computer to another, are there any precautions to take? Will DrivePool on the new...
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Very very high RAM usage in DrivePool
DrivePool's footprint ranged from 2-5GB before I added all of the pool's drives to NOD32 anti virus's exclude list. At least I'm pretty sure that's what fixed it. Attached is a poolmon screenshot...
View ArticleSpecified duplication drives
I bought too many 8TB easystores when they were on sale and I've decided that I want to use the ones that wont fit in my case as backup drives. Just USB attached and sitting on top of the case. What I...
View ArticleLost my pool
I was messing around adding SSD's for optimizer (see the sticky thread above) when I started getting errors in adding 2 identical 256GB SSD's, one stopped at 95%, the other gave a message saying can't...
View ArticleDrive Scanning?
Came across a problem last week and wanted to ask. DrivePool (Latest Beta Version BTW) - When system restarts, Re-check, of for some reason. Default seems to be the order in which the system has...
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DrivePool, ShadowCopy, SnapRaid and other amazing tales.
Hi, I'm not sure if it's the right place, but I haven't found anywhere to post suggestions * I understand that DrivePool and ShadowCopy are not compatible, and knowing Microsoft I'd wager that making...
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Multiple drives with specific data coming to Drive Pool
I'm a newbie so be kind. I currently am getting ready to install DP under Win7 and abandon my wonderful WHS system. WHS is managing data for three computers. I have 600+GB of data on three logical...
View ArticlePool going Read Only on Bios change - NO Notification
I updated my Bios and this caused DP to go into read only mode - But i had no indication of this - i.e. no pop up or anything I found out as i could not create any files on my pool and windows was...
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None of my drives are showing up in Drivepool
Hi all, I am using the latest beta (*.852). For some reason, no drives are showing up, including system drive. All the other drives are mounted to folders in Windows 7. I have tried a repair install to...
View ArticleI/O device error when trying to remove drive
Can anyone please provide some guidance regarding the following? I currently have five hard drives within my drivepool, housed in a microserver, totalling 16TB. However, I have received an alert...
View ArticleToggle Drive Letter?
Drashna, I see a new option in the beta - "Toggle Drive Letter" Can you explain what this does? Is it for the pool drive letter or for the individual drive letters that are added to the pool?
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Disk showing RAW even though it is okay
I have a weird problem following the repair of a corrupt disk. When I hover over one of my disks in DrivePool, the little popup shows my disk is RAW even though it is readable. The other details...
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Yet Another Balancing/Measuring Question
Hello there, Sorry for asking a question that has almost certainly been solved already on this forum, but I wasn't able to find a solution. Some background: I have a ~20TB pool made up of 3TB and...
View ArticleDrives suddenly missing
Suddenly today all of my drives went missing from Drivepool, Scanner showed them as fine and windows disk manager sees them. I reset all setttings in Drivepool and it now sees the drives but not any...
View ArticleServer randomly crashing.
I hope someone can help me with this issue and pinpoint the problem i am having with my server. Basically what happens is that when I RDP into my server I see the server as randomly rebooted....
View ArticleLooking to build a pool of drives whats hardware should i get?
So right now i have a WDC 12TB Mirror drive. I am looking to upgrade my storage but not looking to have a bunch of USB drives. Is there any hardware that works great with Drivepool so i can maybe...
View ArticleBalance to multiple drives when receiving multiple incoming file transfers
I'm in the midst of transferring a large volume of data from an 8-bay NAS into a new DrivePool setup and I'm trying to speed up the process a bit. I tried using the SSD plugin with a 500 GB SSD to...
View ArticleDrivePool duplication hangs at ~0.1% after drive replacement
Hi - running WHS 2011, DP version 1.3.7585. I had one drive go bad in a three drive pool. Moved the data off the bad drive, installed a replacement, added it to the pool and DP wouldn't write...
View Articleready to re install windows (again), but no deactivate option
After having problems with windows i did a clean install yesterday and prior to this i deactivated drive pool and scanner. i reinstalled windows and registered without issue and pool was recognised ....
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Yet Another Balancing/Measuring Question 2
Having problems here. Maybe you can see the progression - whats with the large not available for Duplication sectors for 2-3 days Attached Thumbnails
View Article1.27 TB of "OTHER"
Hello, I have read through some google found "other" questions but none have rectified my issue. I am currently showing 1.27 TB of "OTHER" in DrivePool. Per the gray color on the drive bars it appears...
View ArticleHow to format in ReFS after Windows Fall Creators Update?
They removed it, again! And I'm halfway through a full conversion for my drives (memleak be damned). Now, short of installing Windows again - is there a way to format the drives in REFS? I can...
View ArticleCombine Windows SS with DrivePool?
Hi I'm starting to go the Storage Spaces route, using parity and integrity streams in order to just let the system fix silent errors without having to ever worry about my data. However, it's a bit of...
View ArticleA few notes from a newbie
OK, first, just in case any one here knows of Ikon, let me say, I'm not him. Ikon was my father. I say 'was' because he passed away in 2012. I inherited all his tech, including his forum and social...
View ArticleNeed to reinstall Windows - Drivepool steps?
(My apologies if this is in a FAQ somewhere, but I didn't see one.) I suspect I have a critter running around my Windows 10 installation and would like to do a fresh reinstall. What are the steps I...
View Articleknown issues update
I would like to humbly request that the known issues post in Nuts and Bolts be updated. For example, which is the latest stable Beta release? Thx.
View ArticleWanting to build a server 40-45 Bay
Any an all idea's are awesome so please if you have anything posted it up here :-D Ok so my father and I are really needing to build a super server. As it sits he already has a server rack 48U Rack....
View ArticleNew user with issues and problems
-I'm using Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2. When I first installed drivepool (and for the next few reboots), I had the dashboard window and I also had a separate drivepool window (which was nice)....
View ArticleNot able to remote control drivepool Beta 2.2.0.875
Hello, I have three licences for drivepool. one installed on my main desktop and the further two licences installed on two servers, all running Windows 10 64 bit Fall Creators update. The two...
View ArticleUpdate to Fall Creators update x64 win 10 all pools gone!
OS: Windows 10 x64 v1709 (Fall Creator's Update) build 16299.19 Drive Pool Version: 2.1.1.561 After updating to the fall creators update all my pools are missing. I've restarted the PC 5 times. No...
View ArticleHow long is yours (Service Starting)
The service starting message on my machine lasts AGES. I'm working with support trying to get it resolved but I'm assuming it's a bug and I suppose it's possible that this is just how long it takes for...
View ArticleDrivePool measures the pool on every start
Hi, I'm a new user of DrivePool. I have an external Fantec USB 3.0 hard drive enclosure box, with 4 HGST 4TB drives, all combined in a pool. I use this pool as long term storage for my photography raw...
View ArticleRemoving multiple drives from pool
I'm doing some shuffling of hard drives between two systems, and want to remove two drives from my main file server. So I clicked "Remove" on the two drives I want to remove from DrivePool, and wait....
View ArticleHelp me understand DrivePool and CloudDrive interaction
Hi Folks (especially Chris), I'm especially frustrated right now because of a dumb mistake on my part and a high likelihood of a misunderstanding of the intricacies of how, when, and why DP is...
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Trouble updating StableBit DrivePool to 2.2.0.852 x64
I currently have Stablebit drive pool ver. 2.2.0.651 64bit. I've been trying to update to ver. 2.2.0.852 x64 but i keep getting a error message about a missing DLL, screen shot and error log included....
View ArticleUpdated to Windows Fall Creator Update - Lost Pool
Hi I just updated Windows and now DrivePool won't load one of my pools. I have 4 drives assigned to two pools (two drive per pool), and one pool won't show up in DrivePool on my system. The data is...
View ArticleNewbie question, marking a subset of drives for redundant data only?
I have a newbie question that I'm failing to find through search. I have 8 drives in my pool. 2 of which I have low confidence in remaining lifetime. The other 6 I have high confidence in. Other...
View ArticleCombining 2 (or more) pools across separate machines.
The situation is, that I have run out of hard drive space in my current case.(15 drives) Ideally I would like build another machine running Windows, with loads more disks, is it possible to combine...
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[DrivePool BETA 2.2.0.877] SSD Optimizer not moving data away
Hi, I'm using Drivepool (Beta) since 2015, recently bought it because it's a great tool. But nowadays I have problem, there are some data hogging my SSD space. I read all the stickies and it seems...
View ArticleGUI crashes, restart?
From around beta 2.2.0.870 the drivepool gui stops responding and services log stops updating... Now im on 877 and it crashes more frequently now.. I need to restart my server to get it working.....
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