Read Striping Issues?
I have a DrivePool with two physical drives on it. Some folders are set to 2x duplication. I recently added a CloudDrive to the pool which is set to only have duplicated files on it. However, now when...
View ArticleOne or more new hard drives are connected to the server
I often see this message in the Windows Essentials Health Monitoring tab in Windows Server 2016 Standard. One or more new hard drives are connected to the server Occurrences SERVER2016 4/28/2017...
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Recommendations for achieving Pool of Mixed NAS and Local Drives
Greetings, I have two NAS devices, plus a few local hard drives, and I'd like to aggregate them all together in one Pool (ie, so that they show up as a single drive in Windows). From reading through...
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New user, couple of questions.
I'm sure this question gets asked once a week. How to hide drives in "This PC" now that Drivepool has become the main Drive location? I don't want to see E\:, F:\, G:\ etc. This is literally one of...
View ArticleNext Generation Server Build
Hi As the title suggests I am looking into my next generation home server build. Currently have a G4500 Processor in an H110M-A motherboard which has worked flawlessly for the last two years and...
View ArticleWanted a totally "clean install". Ran...
I wanted a totally clean install. Been having problems with DP going to a point and just stalling. I ran the wiki knowledgebase http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q3017479, then installed the...
View ArticleSSD Optimizer and drive balancing
Hello, Just got Drivepool and I am using the SSD optimizer plugin with a 500gb SSD feeding 8 mechanical drives. I have read all the posts on the forum about disabling other balance plug ins and have...
View ArticleCan I add more than 1 drive letter to a pool?
does drive pool allow using more than 1 drive letter for a pool.
View ArticleAbsolute Manual Duplication Possible on Drivepool 2.x?
I run WHS 2011 and have been running Drivepool 1.x for some years. Lately I have had some folder permission problems with folder moves between shares, and the folder that is "moved" is left empty on...
View ArticleRansomware?
Drashna, got an academic question for you. Was reading the news about that newest ransomware thing going around and thought...crap. If my media pool (100TB) got encrypted entirely, I'd be screwed....
View ArticleDelaying Drivepool start-up (integration with CloudDrive)
Hi there, First and foremost, congrats on the stable release of CloudDrive. A milestone indeed! Gave CloudDrive a re-spin, and it's much better integrated with Drivepool. I'm successfully running...
View ArticleSingle Drive Read for Duplicated Files
Hello. I've used Drivepool for several months already. For ordinary operations the performance is ok, but for heavy software such as Adobe Lightroom the performance impact is noticable. The...
View ArticleIO retries.
Any idea why I am seeing the following regularly in my event log? Don't seem to have any adverse effects, all disks showing as healthy and scanned. This is reported on Drive 5 - which is the...
View ArticlePerformance / Threads Limit???
DUPLICATE, PLEASE REMOVE. Not sure why it duplicated my thread while editing.
View ArticlePerformance / Threads Limit???
So, I looked for the previous conversation I had created on this, but I couldn't find it. I am assuming it was purged as "unanswered" or just fell off the list because of age. Last year I started a...
View ArticleRemoving drives from pool
I had stablebit scanner start to report errors on one of my pool drives so I thought I'd take proactive measures and replace it prior to failure. I placed a new drive in the pool and then removed the...
View ArticleRaid5/50 for duplication only?
So my DrivePool is about ~50tb and I just came into a new chassis, raid controller and 10+ 3tb drives. I do plan to migrate everything to the new chassis. I was thinking about creating a raid 50 from...
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426 GB of Other
As the topic title says, I have large amounts of data I can't account for apparently. I previously used flexraid (traid) and decided to switch to drivepool + snapraid. I just bought and set up...
View ArticleFormatting Media server PC
Hello all, I am just coming here to get specific instructions on how to safely and relatively easily format my current PLEX Media server PC, which i use Stable bit DRIVE POOL and Scanner on that main...
View ArticleWhich Beta should I download?
I currently have a filserver VM running Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard, and its running DrivePool 2.2.0.734. I had some weird issue, and Christopher (I think) said I should grab that one. That solved...
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