Thank you for replying...
Yes. I see that. Though when it drops into this "GPT Protective Partition", All details at the top of the window are gone. No drive letter, no label, (I'm pretty sure there's no layout, type or file system info either, and status reports "Healthy (GPT Protective Partition)"
Disks do not disappear, no. None of the five disks in the pool have a Windows drive letter. I know they are not disappearing because the same five drives are also in a Drive Bender pool. Stablebit is using the free space on those five drives for the testing pool.
I appreciate that this is not typical usage, but in my simple mind, the theory's good? . This morning, I created a second pool using free space of two local drives I use for backups. Drive Bender has nothing to do with these.
The five pooled drives are in an external enclosure (Addonics) and are connected to the PC in JBOD mode, from a port multiplier on the Addonics case, to the PC, via USB3.
For antivirus protection, I use NOD32, just the AV part, I passed on the Internet Security option.
For backup, Macrium Reflect takes an incremental backup of "C:\" each night.
Goodsynch 9 backs up the various media types on these five pooled drives to the two local drives mentioned earlier.
It's happened twice so far. The first time I noticed it, the pool had just been 'there'. The only thing on it had been that "System Volume Information" folder. I hadn't got around to giving it a workout (Real Lifeā¢) for a couple of days, and when I went to have at it, it wasn't there. I rebooted and it came back. It made me nervous. So I just left it, again, with no data. I kept an eye on it for a day or so, then took my eye of it, and of course, it disappeared again. I have no idea when it's doing that. The PC is on 27/7.
I have created a more 'normal' pool and will see how that fares running alongside the other.
I have copied some random files and folders onto the 'five-drive pool' that's been going AWOL to see if that helps.
I will keep a closer eye on it from this morning to see if it happens again, if there's a clue to the trigger. If I don't see one, I'll enable logging.
I used to love all this stuff, but I'm getting on now, and just want things to work. I searched, then posted, hoping for a quick solution.... heyho
One other thing.... The plugin that lets me specify that I want the drives filled in a set order... I installed that, but...
The installer auto closed on me, and I thought it had failed, so ran it again. It prompted me that I must have v2.xx installed to use it. I did have, so I ran it again, got the same prompt. Think I went three times and gave up, but having given up, when I went to the "Balancer" tab, the ordered file placement thing was there. Maybe unrelated, but thought it might be worth mentioning, just in case...
I will let you know how this goes...