iSCSI Migration Questions
I am currently in the process of moving my storage drives to a new separate 24-bay enclosure. My original plan was to have Drivepool running in that storage box, and map the pool as a network drive to...
View ArticleCan you move a pool from one machine to another?
Hi all, I wanted to know if there is a proper way to do this. If I wanted to move an entire pool (all drives) from one computer to another, are there any precautions to take? Will DrivePool on the new...
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Very very high RAM usage in DrivePool
DrivePool's footprint ranged from 2-5GB before I added all of the pool's drives to NOD32 anti virus's exclude list. At least I'm pretty sure that's what fixed it. Attached is a poolmon screenshot...
View ArticleSpecified duplication drives
I bought too many 8TB easystores when they were on sale and I've decided that I want to use the ones that wont fit in my case as backup drives. Just USB attached and sitting on top of the case. What I...
View ArticleLost my pool
I was messing around adding SSD's for optimizer (see the sticky thread above) when I started getting errors in adding 2 identical 256GB SSD's, one stopped at 95%, the other gave a message saying can't...
View ArticleDrive Scanning?
Came across a problem last week and wanted to ask. DrivePool (Latest Beta Version BTW) - When system restarts, Re-check, of for some reason. Default seems to be the order in which the system has...
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DrivePool, ShadowCopy, SnapRaid and other amazing tales.
Hi, I'm not sure if it's the right place, but I haven't found anywhere to post suggestions * I understand that DrivePool and ShadowCopy are not compatible, and knowing Microsoft I'd wager that making...
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Multiple drives with specific data coming to Drive Pool
I'm a newbie so be kind. I currently am getting ready to install DP under Win7 and abandon my wonderful WHS system. WHS is managing data for three computers. I have 600+GB of data on three logical...
View ArticlePool going Read Only on Bios change - NO Notification
I updated my Bios and this caused DP to go into read only mode - But i had no indication of this - i.e. no pop up or anything I found out as i could not create any files on my pool and windows was...
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None of my drives are showing up in Drivepool
Hi all, I am using the latest beta (*.852). For some reason, no drives are showing up, including system drive. All the other drives are mounted to folders in Windows 7. I have tried a repair install to...
View ArticleI/O device error when trying to remove drive
Can anyone please provide some guidance regarding the following? I currently have five hard drives within my drivepool, housed in a microserver, totalling 16TB. However, I have received an alert...
View ArticleToggle Drive Letter?
Drashna, I see a new option in the beta - "Toggle Drive Letter" Can you explain what this does? Is it for the pool drive letter or for the individual drive letters that are added to the pool?
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Disk showing RAW even though it is okay
I have a weird problem following the repair of a corrupt disk. When I hover over one of my disks in DrivePool, the little popup shows my disk is RAW even though it is readable. The other details...
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Yet Another Balancing/Measuring Question
Hello there, Sorry for asking a question that has almost certainly been solved already on this forum, but I wasn't able to find a solution. Some background: I have a ~20TB pool made up of 3TB and...
View ArticleDrives suddenly missing
Suddenly today all of my drives went missing from Drivepool, Scanner showed them as fine and windows disk manager sees them. I reset all setttings in Drivepool and it now sees the drives but not any...
View ArticleServer randomly crashing.
I hope someone can help me with this issue and pinpoint the problem i am having with my server. Basically what happens is that when I RDP into my server I see the server as randomly rebooted....
View ArticleLooking to build a pool of drives whats hardware should i get?
So right now i have a WDC 12TB Mirror drive. I am looking to upgrade my storage but not looking to have a bunch of USB drives. Is there any hardware that works great with Drivepool so i can maybe...
View ArticleBalance to multiple drives when receiving multiple incoming file transfers
I'm in the midst of transferring a large volume of data from an 8-bay NAS into a new DrivePool setup and I'm trying to speed up the process a bit. I tried using the SSD plugin with a 500 GB SSD to...
View ArticleDrivePool duplication hangs at ~0.1% after drive replacement
Hi - running WHS 2011, DP version 1.3.7585. I had one drive go bad in a three drive pool. Moved the data off the bad drive, installed a replacement, added it to the pool and DP wouldn't write...
View Articleready to re install windows (again), but no deactivate option
After having problems with windows i did a clean install yesterday and prior to this i deactivated drive pool and scanner. i reinstalled windows and registered without issue and pool was recognised ....
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