Can you remove more than one drive at once?
Splitting my pool in two can i remove more than one drive at once - it appears so as the option to remove another drive is not greyed out be scared to try it incase it breaks something???
View Article[Feature Request] - Drive Removal - Specify Target Drives
When removing a drive can we have the option to specify which drive(s) to put the data on and/or which drive(s) not to put the data on - obviously DP gives us a list of options based on space and...
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Problems with Removing a Drive From Pool
Last evening, I decided to swap out an old 2TB disk for a new 3TB disk to my 4 drive pool which is duplicated 2x. The drives are as follows: 1x 4TB 1x 3TB 2x 2TB Disks 2, 3, 4, 5 are in the pool...
View Article1:1 Duplication and their "Free Space" in the Pool
I am currently using DrivePool on two sets of disks, one of which are two 1TB drives that I have set up to duplicate each other as well as show up as a single pool. This is mostly used for more...
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Issue re-adding a drive after a RAID rebuild.
So this is the first time I've had a drive failure while using DrivePool. I'd like to first say I am quite happy with how the software handled the missing drive, locking the rest of the drives from...
View ArticleOnly duplicates on a CloudDrive
I know this has been asked before - I've even read a few threads on it, but I still can't seem to find a 100% "for sure" answer... What I have in my pool is this: Drive A - local drive Drive B -...
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[Bug] SSD Cache - Copy fails when nearly full and [Bug] "Unusable for...
As i understand it when the SSd cache becomes full it should fall back to the Archive drives But If you are copying large volumes of data (internally within the server in this case) it will fail...
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Notice different behavior for Win7 "copy" vs "move" - data...
I am recovering a drive I pulled out of a hot swap box ( the drive lost the drivepool partition because I didn't unmount the drive from Windows first). I now have all the recovered folders/files...
View ArticleFolder Duplication - backup file of settings? Settings lost with C: SSD failure
I lost my C: SSD drive some time ago. I seem to have lost a good working backup of it as well... So I installed a new Windows 7 on a new SSD. I now have the pool back up and running, with 1...
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New pool creating failure
New install of Beta .651 on Windows 10. Only rebooted once not twice. Didn't have a new pool button, just an option to add drives so I clicked on the + Add link for the D: drive, it hung at 95%....
View Articlehow can I optimize DP to minimize drive overheats
This isn't really a DrivePool question directly, but my comp tends to have drive overheats, which isn't good. Obviously the real fix is hardware, (fans, etc) but in the interim, would it be better to...
View Article8TB Archive showing up as 1.3 TB
I'm not sure where else to ask, you all seem to be the type of people that live out on the edge like I do. I have a Windows 7 VM running in VMWare 6.5. The system currently has two 5TB WD Red drives...
View ArticleEmpty PoolPart folder - cause of mis-reporting Other?
Hi I've set up a 2-disk pool using a pair of 4TB hard drives. Both drives are dedicated to the pool i.e. have no non-pooled data, yet the statistic displayed in DrivePool reports 1.5TB of Other. I...
View ArticleChanges to file name slow to propigate on network shares?
I've noticed that I fairly often run into a situation where if I rename a file on a network share, it's very slow to reflect the name change on other clients on the network. Is this a normal situation...
View ArticleFeature Request - Assign drive priority for dupicated data
I have 3 cloud drives that are all pooled together and are set at duplication x3 for the entire pool so each drive has the same data. Drive 1: 100 TB ACD Drive 2: 100 TB GDrive Drive 3: 100 TB GDrive...
View ArticleError - Files not constistant across pooled drives
I have three cloud drives that are all pooled together with DrivePool. I have it set to duplicate the data across all three cloud drives for 3x duplication for redundancy. Drive 1: 100 TB Amazon...
View ArticleRecycling old PC for Home Server/NAS duty
Hi all. I'm currently researching into the feasibility of using my old tower PC for home server duty. Knowing that there are a lot of ways to currently do that (Linux, FreeNAS, etc etc), I would...
View ArticleUsing SSD Optimizer for archive (shingled) drives
I have two regular hard drives (WD Red) and one Archive drive. I want files to first copy to the regular drives, then be moved off later to the archive drive. I'm guessing I can do this with the SSD...
View ArticleNeed Help. LSI SAS 9207-8i Hangs at boot!
Any help would be appreciated. I have recieved all of my new parts & the server is running great. Except my LSI SAS 9207-8i will not let the computer boot. I get to the first few lines of the LSI...
View ArticleFeature request: Byte to Byte comparison of duplicated files
Hello. I used to make a file comparison of my data with FreeFileSync (i make backups just mirroring needed data to NAS). I was forced to do so because sometimes got corrupted photos (RAW). It is rare,...
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