Non-Realtime Duplication Mechanics
When realtime duplication is disabled, and an already-duplicated file is updated, presumably this file is written to only one drive (out of, say, 2 it was duplicated onto) ... how does DrivePool later...
View ArticleDid an inplace upgrade no longer see drives!
I had some issues with Windows 10 ENT 64bit and needed to do an inplace install to fix the issues. Kept apps and files and such, however my drives are not showing in DrivePool (data is intact and in...
View ArticleSome questions before I switch to DrivePool
Hello, I've loosely followed DrivePool over the years, having been a WHS 2003 user for a long time back in the day. I ended up walking away from disk pooling for a while once disks became too large...
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Tool to keep disks alive (prevent head parking)
For those who aren't already aware of the issue - some drives (particularly WD "Green" drives) aggressively park their heads (every 8 seconds) to save power. This has caused serious longevity issues...
View ArticleHow can I force DrivePool to NOT fill space on a drive?
I'm using drive pool for storing a number of media files. I use a plug-in to fill each drive in order, before moving on to the next, and when a drive is full I make a copy of it and put it in off-site...
View ArticleQuestion on Clean Install on Windows 10
Hello everyone... I tried researching the answer to my question, but could not find the solution I needed. Basically I is dedicated to the operating system. I then have 4 WD Red drives that are 3TB...
View ArticleDrive failing, backedup to new Drive, how to add new and remove failing from...
Hope this makes sense... 2 days ago StableBit Scanner and WHS 2011 reported that a drive was failing....and a brand new 6TB WD Red drive of all things! So I shutdown the server, physically removed...
View ArticleMoving files from disk to disk - the best way?
Hi All, I'm back again with another potentially stupid question... The 'Pool on my home server contains the usual household shared folders: Documents; Pictures; Music; Videos - accessed from various...
View ArticleDuplication on backup server - is this possible?
My main server is running out of drive bays and capacity. I want to have duplication enabled on everything. I can't upgrade all the drives to larger sizes. I can reuse another pc as backup server and...
View ArticleIgnoring Drives for Drivepool
Does anyone have a way of making Drivepool ignore drives on a system. Drivepool shows my system drive (C:) and the Recovery Drive (F:) as available for it to use in pooling. Don't think we want...
View ArticleNeed some help troubleshooting
I migrated a friend to windows 10 a few weeks ago and he had DP installed on WHS2011. I reinstalled DP and the pool came back up. Now the problem...At first 3 drives kept going missing and wouldnt come...
View ArticleDrivepool Client Only?
Hi, I'm setting up a new NAS which I think will use Drivepool. I want to install Drivepool on my client machine for the sole purpose of connecting to this NAS and controlling the pool - do I need...
View ArticleIncoherent duplication
HI all, I just lost one disk. Then tried to remove it from the pool but without success. Always got errors (cannot access the disk). After having tried all the options of removal without success, I...
View ArticleORICO Enclosure - Noises
I recently got an ORICO enclosure since I ran out of space in my case and after a browse around the forums it seems to be a brand that's recommended. Been using it for about 2 days now and everything...
View ArticleHas anyone upgraded from Windows 2012 Essentials to 2016?
I would rather not go through the process of setting up the server / drive pool again but not sure if I'll have to with an upgrade. Has anyone tried?
View ArticleDuplicating in use files
How does Drive Pool handle duplicating in use files that the application tends to lock such as as VMDK, VDI, outlook PST, MS Access Databases?
View ArticleBeta vs Stable
Hi, I'm currently trialing Drivepool, I'm using the Stable version. I'm seeing some things which I have googled, such as read striping only seemingly reading from one disk so transfer maxes out at...
View ArticleShould I rebalance pre-seeded drives?
As I was migrating from a damaged StorageSpaces pool, I ended up pre-seeding a couple of disks before transferring all my disks to the DrivePool based disk. So I have a couple of disks that currently...
View ArticleRead Striping
Hi, I'm trying to get my head around Read Striping. In theory this should make it act a bit like a RAID 1 right, combining the two drives to get an improved read speed? I'm not expecting 2x read...
View ArticleEvent Viewer Warnings
Windows Server 2016 Standard with Essentials Role. DrivePool version 2.2.0.737 BETA. I have been seeing an issue with the File Distribution not Optimal. I just looked at Event Viewer and see a number...
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