Folder shares slow to be updated
I've been using drivepool for several months now and everything has been working great so far except some delayed behavior with my shares I'm hoping someone can help me fix. I can look at a folder on...
View ArticleExternal Hard Drive USB3 SMART Data Problems
Afternoon From the UK, I have both Scanner and drivepool on my Server 2012R2 install with the essentials role working but I have a strange quirk I would like to ask about. I have for most part always...
View ArticleParent folder balancing
I am ready to buy but there is just 1 thing that I need and im not sure if it can be accomplished. Basically I have Movies and TV Shows folders on various drives, then underneath those folders are...
View ArticleCurrent Flexraid (pooling only) user looking for an alternative
Edit - I've found a few of my own answers - can anyone help me on the remaining Q's? I really need to figure out whether I am staying with Flex or moving to Stablebit. I have been using Flexraid for...
View ArticleDrive removal error
Gents, I am trying to remove a drive that is starting to show smart errors. I have added additional space in order to remove the drive but I get the following error: ERROR REMOVING DRIVE There is...
View ArticleWhat happens when trial period finishes?
Hello, About to start a trial of drivepool when I rebuild the home server, and was wondering what happens at the end of the trial period if I haven't bought by then? Will the pool still work...
View Article??? Evenly Distribute all files across HDD's
Discovered it's called Balancing, Need help on figuring out how to delete this post.
View Article[BETA] Help: "Disk is missing", but it's not.
Hi, please help. Since a week or so, DrivePool complains about a disk missing, but it's actually there. Also in Disk Management A picture, says more than a thousand word:...
View ArticleAutomatic Balancing and 8TB archive drives
Hi. Is there a way to leave the files on these drives untouched even if they're full?
View Articlefrom drivepool to linux back to drivepool... and problems arise!
That is, problems arise, surprising nobody at all. Here's the deal: I had a workable Win7 setup with Drivepool, everything was going fine... decided to move to Linux, heard that mergerfs + Greyhole...
View ArticleUse DrivePool i Windows Safe Mode
Is it possible to somehow manually start the DP-service to enable DrivePool i Windows Safe Mode? I found this solution on how to enable TightVNC in safe mode: REG COPY...
View ArticleRecording Live TV to DrivePool
Hello, I am curious whether anyone is recording live TV to their DrivePool? A little bit about my setup: Server is running Hyper-V Server 2016 Tech Preview 5 My controller is a HP RR 2760A DrivePool...
View ArticleDrivePool vs. Storage Spaces
Chris, You used to have a write-up somewhere on here that described the differences (really the advantages) of DrivePool over Storage Spaces. I can't find it now. Do you know where it is, or can you...
View ArticlePool/drive access and timeouts.
I'm not quite sure where to start. I have a weird issue I can't quite pin down. I'm not even sure it's a Drive Pool issue, but I have many other systems with the same setup and the only difference is...
View ArticleDisks never spin down
Folks, Running DrivePool with the following drives: 1xWD50EFRX, 1x WD80EFZX, 1xWD80EZZX. OS is Server 2012R2. Drivepool only handles TV shows, music and movies. For some reason, even though the...
View ArticleWindows Storage Server 2012 R2
Will DP run on Windows® Storage Server 2012 R2? I didn't see is listed as a compatible OS, but figured I'd ask anyway since WSS is only available from OEM's. I have a customer that might be...
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Putting a damaged+scanned disk back into a pool-how?
Hi, One of my disks, D:, had a block error, so DP seems to have locked the pool after trying to get as much data off the disk as possible (I think). I've scanned the disk with chkdsk and told it to...
View ArticleRestarting Computer in Middle of Duplication to Cloud Drive
First of all, I just want to say thanks for this awesome software. I have set up a cloud drive with google drive, and am currently in the process of having my data duplicated onto the cloud drive. My...
View ArticleFile evacuation, does this plugin move corrupted files?
At the moment stablebit scanner detected an unreadable sector on one of my 1,5TB Samsung drive. I dont know witch files are damaged because scanning disk surface is at 97,41% and it says "you will be...
View ArticleSo far its failing my tests. Can anyone help?
Been testing DrivePool and was under the impression that after removing a drive from the pool of 2 drives (that has file duplication switched on), those files would become visible and accessible via...
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