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Error Duplicating VHDX files
Hi there, I'm in day 3 of evaluating drivepool after a horror experience with migrating a storage space from windows 10 to server 2012r2 which has cost me a significant amount of $$$ for recovery...
View ArticleFile Placement rules won't save to second partition
1st of all, thanks for this great program & the amount of customer support it has. I have learnt a lot about these programs (scanner & drivepool) from reading many forum posts but unfortunately...
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SSD Optimizer question.
Hey Chris and everyone. As a long long time user of Drivepool I finally got around to trying the SSD optimizer plugin. I did have issues originally but was planning on a server reinstall anyway, so no...
View ArticleConsidering SSD optimizer
I have a LONG working DrivePool server recently upgraded to Windows 10. It has now about 15 drives and is a roughly 32TB Pool fully duplicated. I have a couple of extra 40GB SSD drives that have...
View ArticleHelp - corrupt drive? Duplicating taking forever?
Hope someone can help me - I'm not sure what to do with my current setup. I have DrivePool 1.3 installed on WHS 2011. I have 3 drives in my pool (2 x 3TB and 1 x 2TB). Today I noticed that one of...
View ArticleCan't get balance immediately to start?
I am trying to prep for a drive replacement and trying to empty out the old drive. Clicked on the drive usage plugin and unselected duplicated and unduplicated files for the drive in question. In...
View ArticleSSD Optimizer - ramdisk/PCIe SSD - 10Gbe alleviate write bottleneck help
I am working to remove/reduce the write bottleneck for my new file server and had a few questions on the best route to take. I've read some really great support answers/suggestions on these forums so...
View ArticleWhat is "New un-duplicated file placement limit"?
In my pool I had a 4TB drive that Scanner said has 2MB of damage, so I told DrivePool to remove the drive from the pool, but there was probably a hundred or so GB of files I was unable to read to get...
View ArticlePermission issues old pool drives
Hoping someone can help me with a odd issue. I had a pool previously on my hardware, it consisted of 3 drives, after a hardware fault i was forced to setup a new pool on server essentials and created a...
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Problems installing SSD Optimizer.
Attached is a screenshot of what happens when I try to install SSD Optimizer. Can you spot the problem? Attached Thumbnails
View ArticleReadstriping x2 vs x3 duplication?
I'm curious if setting my duplication levels to higher than x2 would increase the read striping. I have 30 drives attached to my file server but most of the files are very large .iso rips (sometimes...
View ArticleDropbox
Good day. Just wondering if running Dropbox on the pool is ok, i.e. does the pool support the ability of the OS to notify programs when a file changes (it probably does, but who knows, I read...
View Article2x duplication with 3 drives? Maximum capacity?
I have 3 x 5TB drives added to my pool, and my max capacity says 13.6TB. I have set 2x duplication for the entire pool. Questions: How does 2x duplication work with 3 drives? Am I protected if one of...
View ArticleScanner/Drivepool/HDD help needed
Pulling my hair out, the last few I still have :-). First question. Bought several 8TB drives. In order to have bays available I started to remove several of my 3TB drives. The first went OK an swapped...
View ArticleExternal storage suggestions
Dear all, my chassi is full, no more drive bays nor SATA ports, so I have to expand my storage. I wonder if someone could advice me how to expand my storage. What technology should I use? (eSATA)...
View ArticleAdd local drive (drivepool drive) to a VM in Hyper-V
Hi, I've made a VM in Hyper-V to get a VPN connection inside a controlled environment, using xubuntu, and to play aorund with a linux distribution. I would like to add my D: drive from local to the...
View ArticleECC ram for a Drivepool server.
Is there any advantage using ECC ram on a Windows Drivepool server? Heard terror stories about not using ECC on ZFS, people loosing their entire pools etc due to memory corruption and the way ZFS uses...
View ArticleGPT vs MBR
Is there any advantage using GPT vs MBR in standard storage hdd's for use in a pool?
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Pool Disk Alignment
I have an older pool made years ago (MBR by defualt) which is around 80TB now with no performance issues. AS SSD shows it being aligned correctly. I created a new pool on the latest build and by...
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Poor Pool Performance - Ideas?
Hey Guys - A couple of years ago, I started building my pool and have only added to it since. Currently, it's 32tb in total size which is comprised of 11 disks (one of which is an SSD for caching.)...
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