DrivePool not Balancing
Good Morning! I'm running DP v. 2.2.0.651 on my WHS 2012r2 Server, a 49.6TB pool. Recently I added two drives, a 6TB, replacing a damaged 6TB drive, and an 8TB. The system properly added the...
View ArticleUnderstanding non-duplicated files
Where exactly are these files stored? I've pooled my D, E and F drives together. It's saying the unduplicated files are on my E drive. What happens if I disconnect my drive? Will I lose these files or...
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Questions: DrivePool and Adding HDD's
I've been running my first server (a Gen8 w/ WHS2011) for about a year and I'm about to add a 4TB Red to the rack (along with the existing 60GB SSD and 2TB Red) (see image attached). So I decided...
View ArticleWhy is duplication inefficient?
Say I have drive A. There is 5TB in the cloud and 100GB cached locally. I add drive B and turn on file duplication with 2 copies (one on each drive). Why does Drivepool immediately start to download...
View ArticleAdding mounted VHD files
I have tried unsuccessfully to add mounted VHD's to a new or existing pool. I am currently using v2.2.0.734. I don't want to take a performance/cache hit by using CloudDrive to make shares on my NAS...
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Help me make the right decisions
Hi all Thank you for taking the time to read this and hopefully lend me your expertise. I recently discovered this great application that does exactly what I have been looking for and since then have...
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the operation cannot be completed because the disk is full
Hello, I have been using Drive Pool for a bit now and love it. However, I started running into this issue recently when copying mkv files across the network to the Drive Pool machine. It will copy all...
View ArticleAlways Keeping Each Movie on Single Drive?
I'm considering setting up DrivePool but have a few questions before I try the product. My NAS currently has about 8 drives full of BDMV Bluray disc backups. Each drive has a Movies folder which...
View ArticleDrive pool duplication/ raid 1?
Current goal is to use cloud-drive with cloud pool, when I make a pool with two 100TB drives with duplication on it shows that I have 200TB Free when in reality it should be 100 since it will be making...
View ArticleIssues copying ~10TB with rsync
I'm having an issue copying data to my drivepool and it's really starting to annoy the crap out of me. I have about 10TB of stuff on a ZFS pool that I'm trying to move to my drivepool. I'm going...
View ArticleServer 2016 Essentials and "Server Folders" Not Seeing DrivePool
When trying to move a server folder to the pool, it doesn't display the DrivePool disk. It shows all the physical disks. I searched and didn't see anything noted or posted regarding this in 2012 or...
View ArticleAdding a USB drive to a Pool on a VM (windows 10)
Is it possible to add a USB drive to drivepool running on a windows 10 VM?
View Article2.2 Beta vs 2.1 Official
I'm not sure what new features are available in the proposed 2.2 release. Is it worth upgrading now to the latest 2.2 beta? Will CoveFS ever support USN Journaling. This would make pool drives fully...
View ArticleBaffling behavior after booting with a flash drive still in
So I did my periodic OS drive backup and set things to reboot after backup is complete and went on about forgetting about my server for a while. My setup: 5 x 3TB drives (D-H) Mounting to Drivepool...
View Article8 port sata card for Windows 10
Hello, I need add a 8 port sata card on my plex server, im using Windows 10. I looked at Supermicro card, but the product page dont say anything about Windows 10 drivers. Anyone know a stable 8...
View ArticleFile Placement for New Drives
I have added a new drive to my pool, and I can't seem to get DrivePool to reshuffle the files to use the space evenly (for balancing). I have tried ticking the "When a new drive is added to the pool,...
View ArticleDrivePool drive letter moves on drive install
I have done some looking on this and have not found an answer so I thought I would ask... I have DrivePool setup as the 'D:' drive on my system. Anytime I add a new drive it takes D: and moves the...
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Failed to Enumerate objects in this folder.Access is Denied
I upgraded my HP Microserver running Drive pool and windows 8.1 to a Dell T20 running windows 10 I enabled the administrator account I added my own account as a local admin and made sure I was in...
View ArticleFilesystem on a drive within the pool
Hi, I have drivepool 2.1.1.561 running on WHS2011. Its been stable but have had a few problems with WHS lately. Anyhow noticed the box was offline and had to restart it. While I see the virtual...
View ArticleDoes DrivePool use the recyclebin. Finding missing data.
I recently started to test out DrivePool with Snapraid. I was previously using traid and kept having issues with it. All I want is to use Drivepool for the pooling only and snapraid for the security....
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