wolfpac

Apologies in advance for semi-taking over this thread - I'm looking at the 8 bay version of the Orico (or the 10 bay, although after reading advice against USB only, I think I'll settle for the 8 bay instead and maybe look at a second enclosure if I need it) Any recommendations on a PCIe card for eSATA and issues with drive multipliers?

Big fan of this, and certainly what I needed after a failed drive refused to give up the last 8GB or so of data after it was evac-ed. Only problem I saw was that the file/folder paths were too long? Basically line after line of essentially 'path too long'. Without redoing the whole directory structure, is there another way around this?

I run a Q6600 at stock clock with 3GB DDR2 and while usage goes up copying to/from/balancing etc it copes well with it. No encryption or cloud connection (even so a 100mb/2.4mb connection would help there anyway) or SSD cache drives - I do have a partition of 1 SSD included in the pool. Just as a comparison, anyway.

Yeah HUGE relief, so glad I bought the combo of Drivepool and Scanner! Well worth the 'cost of admission'! Ah ok then, there's 2 enclosures I've been looking at, one is USB3.0 only, the other is USB3.0 and eSATA. The eSATA one seems to have issues with not seeing all the drives on certain chipsets so I'll have to make sure the PCIe card I get is capable. But that's good to know, as long as WHS can see it, Drivepool can see the pool, everything continues working.

I've been using Drivepool, love it, don't love drives dying but happy that Drivepool and Scanner work hand in hand to avoid disaster. Anyway, I'm looking to move the pool in my WHS2k11 'server' case to a dedicated 8 or 10 bay external hard drive case (something like an Orico 10 bay or Hotway 8 bay case, eSATA and USB connection back to the 'server'). Apologies if this is the 1000th time this has been asked, can I "safely" just physically remove all of the drives from inside the case and then install them in the stand alone HDD case? Magically Drivepool on the WHS box knows where the drives are when I plug in the drives into the case, then connect it to the WHS box and everything continues on happily?